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Parallel & Perpendicular questions for Primary 3 Maths
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Railway tracks stay the same distance apart and never meet. What kind of lines are they?
Answer: Parallel
Lines that never meet and stay the same distance apart are parallel.
The corner of a book cover has two edges meeting at a right angle. What are those edges?
Answer: Perpendicular
Two lines meeting at a right angle are perpendicular.
How many pairs of parallel sides does a square have?
Answer: 2
The top and bottom are one parallel pair; the left and right are another: 2 pairs.
Which capital letter is made from two parallel lines and one line crossing them?
Answer: H
A capital H has two parallel uprights joined by a crossbar.
Which of these pairs is parallel?
Answer: The two long rails of a ladder
The two long rails of a ladder run alongside each other and never meet, so they are parallel.
How many pairs of perpendicular sides does a rectangle have?
Answer: 4
There is a right angle at each of the 4 corners, so 4 pairs of sides are perpendicular.
Which statement about parallel lines is TRUE?
Answer: They stay the same distance apart
Parallel lines keep exactly the same gap between them all the way along.
Which capital letter has two perpendicular lines?
Answer: T
The crossbar of a capital T meets its upright at a right angle.
A window frame has an upright bar and a bar across it, meeting at a right angle. What are those two bars?
Answer: Perpendicular
Bars meeting at a right angle are perpendicular to each other.
Which shape has NO parallel sides?
Answer: Triangle
Every pair of sides in a triangle meets at a corner, so none of them are parallel.