Additional exercise

11.2 Right-angled triangle

trigonometry
1 Find the angle θ in each triangle.

2 a Find the side x.

b Find the side y.

3 Find a and b.

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4 The diagram shows a cuboid with sides 4 cm, 5 cm and 6 cm.

a Calculate the length AC.

b Calculate the length AG

c Find angle GAH.

5 A tree casts a 7 m shadow when the angle of elevation of the Sun is 32°. How tall is the tree?

6 A woman in a tall building looking out of a window 50 m above ground level sees an object on
the ground. The angle of depression when she is looking at the object is 20°. How far away is
the object from the foot of the building?

7 A boat is 50 km east of a port. It then sails for 40 km on a bearing of 072°. What is the bearing
and distance of the ship from the port?

8 Find the area of these triangles.

9 Without using a calculator, find an exact value for the area of a regular hexagon of side 2 cm.

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Answers

 16 
1 a arctan   ≈ 43.3°
 17 

 8 
b arcsin   ≈ 34.8°
 14 

2 a 12 sin31° ≈ 6.18 cm

17
b ≈ 18.9 cm
tan 42°

3 a 12 =
= sin 40° 7.713... ≈ 7.71 cm

7.713
b=
12 − ≈ 7.55 cm
tan 60°

4 a AC = 62 + 42 ≈ 7.21 cm

b AG = 62 + 52 + 42 ≈ 8.77 cm

c AH = 61

4
Angle =
GAH arcsin ≈ 27.1°
77

5 7 tan32° ≈ 4.37 m

50
6 ≈ 137 m
tan20°

7 Distance east = 50 + 50 sin72° =97.55... km

Distance north=50 cos72° = 15.45... km

so distance = 97.55...2 + 15.45...2 ≈ 98.8 km
 97.55... 
Bearing = arctan   ≈ 081°
 15.45... 

1
8 a × 4 × 6 × sin30° =6 cm2
2

b Call the angle opposite 7 cm, x

sin x sin32°
= ⇒= x 27.6...°
7 8
so 3rd angle =120.3...°
1
area = × 7 × 8 × sin120.3...
= ° 24.15 ≈ 24.2 cm2
2

1 3
9 6× × 2 × 2 × sin60° = 12 × = 6 3 cm2
2 2

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