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Chapter 4 Non-Right-Angled Trigonometry Review Quiz: © G K Powers 2018 Published by Cambridge University Press 1

This document contains a review quiz on non-right-angled trigonometry with 6 multiple choice questions testing skills like using trigonometry to calculate distances and angles, finding bearings between locations, using the cosine rule, and calculating areas of triangles.

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Chapter 4 Non-Right-Angled Trigonometry Review Quiz: © G K Powers 2018 Published by Cambridge University Press 1

This document contains a review quiz on non-right-angled trigonometry with 6 multiple choice questions testing skills like using trigonometry to calculate distances and angles, finding bearings between locations, using the cosine rule, and calculating areas of triangles.

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Chapter 4 Non-right-angled trigonometry review quiz

1. The diagram below shows a small and a large 5. Point A is 35 metres from B and 60 metres
vertical pole joined by length of wire at the top from C. The angle BAC is 40˚.
of each pole.

What is the distance between B and C?


The smaller pole is 2 metres tall and is 10 6. Ethan is setting a cross-country race and
metres from the taller pole. The taller pole has recorded the measurements on his iphone.
a height of h metres. The angle of elevation of However, it was not saved. Ethan remembered
the top of the taller pole from the top of the that the first leg (AB) was 1100 m and the
smaller pole is 44˚. second leg (BC) was 1300 m. He also
a. Use trigonometry to find the distance AB. remembered the angle between the second and
b. Find the height of the taller pole, correct to third leg was 40°.
one decimal place.
c. Find the length of the wire AC that joins the
two poles. Answer correct to one decimal
place.
2. The compass bearing of Y from X is N43ºE.
What is the compass bearing of X from Y?
a. Ethan needs to know the size of ∠𝐵𝐴𝐶
before he can set up the cross-country
course. What is the size of∠𝐵𝐴𝐶?
b. Calculate the total distance of the course.
c. In the diagram below ∠𝐴𝑂𝐵 = 120° and the
radius is 50 metres.

3. A plane flies from town A 1200 km on a bearing


of 225o to town B. It then flies 900 km on a
bearing of 135o to town C
a. .Use the cosine rule to calculate the
length between A and B to the
nearest metre.
b. Calculate the area of the triangle
AOB.
c. What is the size of ∠𝐵𝐴𝑂?
d. What is the true bearing of A from B
Find the bearing of town C from town A. if B is due east of O?
4. What is the area of triangle ABC to the nearest d. A radial survey of a park is shown below.
square metre?

a. What is the size of POR?


b. Use the cosine rule to calculate the
length of PR correct to the nearest
metre.

© G K Powers 2018 Published by Cambridge University Press 1

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