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Lines, rays and line segments · question bank

Lines, rays and line segments: question bank

Practise everything about points, lines, rays and segments, from naming and measuring to counting crossings, parallel and perpendicular lines, skew edges and proofs. Questions are graded foundation, core, stretch and challenge. Every question has a worked solution: try it first, then read the solution even when you are right. Notation is written in words (line AB, ray AB, segment AB) because textbook bar symbols cannot be typed.

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Q1

FoundationPoints, lines and planes

Which of these has no size at all: no length, no width, no thickness?

Q2

FoundationPoints, lines and planes

How many end points does a line have?

Q3

FoundationPoints, lines and planes

Points are usually named with…

Q4

CorePoints, lines and planes

How many different straight lines can pass through two given points?

Q5

CorePoints, lines and planes

How many straight lines can pass through one given point?

Q6

CorePoints, lines and planes

Which of these is not one of the three undefined starting ideas of school geometry?

Q7

CorePoints, lines and planes

Three points P, Q and R lie on one line. How many different names of the form "line XY" can you write for this line, using two of the three letters in either order?

Q8

StretchPoints, lines and planes

True or false: "A line drawn 12 cm long in my notebook is 12 cm long."

Q9

FoundationRays

A drawing has a dot at one end and an arrowhead at the other. What is it?

Q10

FoundationRays

Which everyday thing is the best picture of a ray?

Q11

CoreRays

Ray AB starts at which point?

Q12

CoreRays

True or false: ray PQ and ray QP are the same ray.

Q13

CoreRays

Points A, B and C lie on a line in that order. Which ray is the same as ray AB?

Q14

StretchRays

Q lies between P and R on a line. What do we call ray QP and ray QR?

Q15

StretchRays

Points A, B, C, D, E lie on a line in that order. How many different rays start at one of these points and pass through at least one other of them?

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