options: Prove theorems involving similarity.

Experiment with transformations in the plane.

Apply trigonometry to general triangles.

Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.

Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.

Understand and apply theorems about circles.

Translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section.

Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

Explain volume formulas and use them to solve problems.

Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.

Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.

Apply geometric concepts in modeling situations.

Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.

Prove geometric theorems.

Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.

Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).

Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles.

Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.

Understand congruence in terms of rigid motions.

Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations.

Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

Make geometric constructions.

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres.

Find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles.
problem_activity: Task
Global Positioning System or GPS devices receive input from satellites and use
this information to locate our position on the planet.   The information received from
each individual satellite gives the distance from the GPS  device to that satellite and the location of the satellite.  The set of points at a fixed distance from a satellite form
a sphere so when the GPS receives its distance from a given satellite, this tells
us that it lies on a particular sphere.  Data from several satellites will
locate the GPS device on the intersection of spheres.  This problem examines different scenarios for intersections of spheres from the point of view of the GPS device: how many
different satellites are needed to locate the GPS device?  Does it matter how
the satellites are configured in space?
Below is a sample picture showing three satellites and their distances, $d_1, d_2, d_3$ from a point on the earth:
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The three parts of this problem investigate different positions of the three
satellites pictured above: the goal is to find scenarios where one, two or three of the distances
$d_1$, $d_2$, $d_3$ are (or are not) sufficient to locate the GPS unit.
Give an example of a satellite and GPS location so that the GPS device can determine its location on the earth with input
from this single satellite.  Also give an example when this one signal does not provide
enough information  to designate a location on the earth.
Give  an example of a configuration of two satellites  and the GPS so that the GPS device can determine its location on the earth with input
from the two satellites (but not from either alone).   Also give an example where these two signals do not provide
enough information  to designate a location on the earth.
Give  an example of a configuration of three satellites and the GPS so that  the GPS device can determine its location on the earth with input
from three satellites (but not from any pair of the satellites).   Also give an example where three signals do not provide
enough information  to designate a location on the earth.


correct_option_index: 3

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