Name Date Class

LESSON Practice B
13-1 Right-Angle Trigonometry
Find the value of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions for ␪.
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Find the values of the six trigonometric functions for ␪.
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csc ␪  __
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csc ␪  __ 5; cot ␪  __
4 csc ␪  __ 41; cot ␪  __
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12 5 12 3 4 3 9 40 9

Solve.
10. A water slide is 26 feet high. The angle between the slide
and the water is 33.5°. What is the length of the slide? 47 ft
11. A surveyor stands 150 feet from the base of a viaduct and
measures the angle of elevation to be 46.2°. His eye level
is 6 feet above the ground. What is the height of the viaduct
to the nearest foot? 162 ft
12. The pilot of a helicopter measures the angle of depression to
a landing spot to be 18.8°. If the pilot’s altitude is 1640 meters,
what is the horizontal distance to the landing spot to the
nearest meter? 4817 m

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