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Trigonometry Assignment

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1. A kite is flying 40 m above the ground. The kite string, which is anchored to the ground with a stake, makes
an angle of 36 with the ground. What length of string is out, to the nearest tenth of a metre?
2. A building 16 m tall casts a shadow that is 12.6 m long. At what angle do the suns rays hit the ground, to the
nearest tenth of a degree?

3. Calculate the length of JK in

JKL, to the nearest tenth.

4. For ABC, AB = 3.0 cm, A = 29, and BC = 2.5 cm. Determine the measure of C, to the nearest tenth of
a degree.

5. In

BEN, BE = 24, BN = 20, and EN = 19. Find the measure of B, to the nearest tenth of a degree.

6. Farai has a backyard that is triangular in shape. She wants to put a fence around it. She places one fence post
90 m from her back deck and another fence post 82 m from the same location on her back deck. The angle
between the lines from the deck to the fence posts is 88. Determine the distance between the fence posts, to
the nearest tenth of a metre.

7. Calculate the perimeter of

EFG, to the nearest metre.

8. Calculate the length of AC, to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.

9. Calculate the measure of ABC, to the nearest degree.

10. Two office towers are 56 m apart. From the top of the shorter tower, the angle of elevation to the top of the
taller tower is 31. The angle of depression to the base of the taller tower is 27. What are the heights of the
two towers, to the nearest tenth of a metre?
11. A restaurants floor plan is as shown, where the larger right triangle is the dining room and the smaller right
triangle contains the kitchen and washrooms. Determine the measure of the base, DC, of the smaller triangle.

12. The Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, is the tallest chimney in Canada. It is 380 m high. From a certain
point, A, on level ground, the angle of elevation to its top, at point C, is 20. From a point B closer to the
Superstack, the angle of elevation to the top is 40. How far apart, to the nearest tenth of a metre, are A and
B?

13. On his trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Simon notices a tall building. He decides to use his math skills to
calculate its height. From a certain point, the angle of elevation to the top of the building is 50. From a point
58 m closer to the building, the angle of elevation to the top of the building is 70. Calculate the height of the
building, to the nearest tenth of a metre.

14. Inez is driving with her parents across Canada. They stop at a roadside sculpture of a moose. Inez wonders
how wide the sculpture is. On a line parallel to the front of the statue, she marks two points, A and B, 6 m
apart. From point A, Inez looks at point C which is at the top right side of the sculpture. She finds that BAC
is 40. Point D is the top left of the sculpture. Inez measures DAB to be 90 and DBA to be 38. How wide
is the sculpture, to the nearest tenth of a metre?

15. As part of her summer job for the city, Janeka must mow the grass of a triangular green space with sides of
length 205 m, 182 m, and 196 m. Calculate the area of the green space, to the nearest square metre.

16. Three circles of radii 5 units, 6 units, and 7 units touch each other externally. When the centres of the circles
are joined, a triangle is formed. Calculate the interior angles of this triangle, to the nearest degree.

17. The side lengths of a quadrilateral are 4.2 cm, 4.6 cm, 6.1 cm, and 4.9 cm, as shown. Angle B is 126.
Calculate the measures of the other angles, to the nearest degree.

18. In ABC, AB = 7 cm, BC = 5 cm, and A = 36. Calculate the two possible lengths of AC, to the nearest
tenth of a centimetre.

Answers
1. 68.1 m
2. 51.8
6. 119.6 m
7. 84 m
11. 9.1 m
12. 591.2 m
16. 69, 59, 52
18. 8.5 cm, 2.8 cm

3. 6.3
4.
, 144.4
5. 50.2
8.16.8 cm
9. 93
10. 62.2 m
13. 122.1 m
14. 5.6 m
15. 16 238 m2
17. A = 79, C = 64, and D = 90

Trigonometry Assignment

1. Let x represent the length, in metres, of string.

The length of string that is out is 68.1 m.

2. Let x be the angle at which the suns rays hit the ground.

The angle at which the suns rays hit the ground is 51.8.
3.

The length of JK is 6.3.

4. This question involves an ambiguous case, as two different triangles can be drawn with the given measures.
Start with the triangle with acute C.

The measure of C is 35.6.

Next, consider the triangle with obtuse C.

From the triangle, C is obtuse. The calculations are the same as above until the last line, when we have to
find the other angle between 0 and 360 that has a sine of

The measure of C is 144.4.

5.

The measure of B is 50.2.

6.

The fence posts are 119.6 m apart.

7. :

Let P represent the perimeter of the triangle.

The perimeter is 84 m.

8.

AC is 16.8 cm long.

9.

The measure of ABC is 93.

10. Let x represent the height, in metres, of the taller tower above the top of the shorter tower, and let y represent
the height, in metres, of the shorter tower.

The height of the shorter tower is 28.5 m.

Use the exact forms of x and y to find the height of the taller tower.

The height of the taller tower is 62.2 m.

11.

The measure of the base of the smaller triangle is 9.1 m.

12.

A and B are 591.2 m apart.

13.

Let CD be the height of the building.

The building is 122.1 m tall.

14.

The sculpture of the moose is 5.6 m wide.

15.

Let BD be the height of the triangle.

Using the cosine law,

The area of the green space is 16 238 m2.

16.

ABC has side lengths of 11 units, 12 units, and 13 units.

Using the cosine law,

Using the sum of the interior angles of a triangle,

The interior angles of the triangle measure 69, 59, and 52.

17. Draw the diagonal AC.

Using the cosine law,

Using the sine law,

Using the cosine law,

Using the sine law,

A = 79, C = 64, and D = 90.

18. The triangle is ambiguous, as it can be drawn in two different ways.

Using the sine law,

From the sum of the angles in a triangle,

Using the sine law,

In the first possible triangle, AC is 8.5 cm.

We know from above that C = 55.376 in the first triangle. However, in this triangle, C is obtuse. So,

From the sum of the angles in a triangle,

Using the sine law,

In the second possible triangle, AC is 2.8 cm.