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Geometry Advanced Worksheet

This document is a 14 question worksheet involving calculating angles of elevation and depression from diagrams. The questions involve finding angles, distances, heights, and lengths given various geometric relationships between objects where an angle of elevation or depression is provided. Students are asked to draw diagrams, write trigonometric ratio equations, solve the equations, and round answers to complete each problem.

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Geometry Advanced Worksheet

This document is a 14 question worksheet involving calculating angles of elevation and depression from diagrams. The questions involve finding angles, distances, heights, and lengths given various geometric relationships between objects where an angle of elevation or depression is provided. Students are asked to draw diagrams, write trigonometric ratio equations, solve the equations, and round answers to complete each problem.

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3 Worksheet (Angles of Elevation & Depression) Name__________________________________


Pre-Calculus CP Date___________________Period__________

Draw a picture, write a trig ratio equation, rewrite the equation so that it is calculator ready and then
solve each problem. Round measures of segments to the nearest tenth and measures of angles to the
nearest degree.

________1. A 20-foot ladder leans against a ________2. A 50-meter vertical tower is


wall so that the base of the ladder is 8 feet from braced with a cable secured at the top of the
the base of the building. What is the ladder’s tower and tied 30 meters from the base. What
angle of elevation? is the angle of depression from the top of the
tower to the point on the ground where the
cable is tied?

________3. At a point on the ground 50 feet ________4. From the top of a lighthouse 210
from the foot of a tree, the angle of elevation to feet high, the angle of depression of a boat is
the top of the tree is 53. Find the height of the 27. Find the distance from the boat to the foot
tree. of the lighthouse. The lighthouse was built at
sea level.

________5. Richard is flying a kite. The kite ________6. An airplane rises vertically 1000
string has an angle of elevation of 57. If feet over a horizontal distance of 5280 feet.
Richard is standing 100 feet from the point on What is the angle of elevation of the airplane’s
the ground directly below the kite, find the path?
length of the kite string.

________7. A person at one end of a 230-foot ________8. The angle of elevation from a car
bridge spots the river’s edge directly below the to a tower is 32. The tower is 150 ft. tall.
opposite end of the bridge and finds the angle How far is the car from the tower?
of depression to be 57. How far below the
bridge is the river?

230
________9. A radio tower 200 ft. high casts a ________10. An escalator from the ground
shadow 75 ft. long. What is the angle of floor to the second floor of a department store
elevation of the sun? is 110 ft long and rises 32 ft. vertically. What
is the escalator’s angle of elevation?

110
32

________11. A rescue team 1000 ft. away ________12. A ladder on a fire truck has its
from the base of a vertical cliff measures the base 8 ft. above the ground. The maximum
angle of elevation to the top of the cliff to be length of the ladder is 100 ft. If the ladder’s
70. A climber is stranded on a ledge. The greatest angle of elevation possible is 70,
angle of elevation from the rescue team to the what is the highest above the ground that it can
ledge is 55. How far is the stranded climber reach?
from the top of the cliff? (Hint: Find y and w
using trig ratios. Then subtract w from y to
find x)

100

x
y
w
8
1000

________13. A person in an apartment ________14. Electronic instruments on a


building sights the top and bottom of an office treasure-hunting ship detect a large object on
building 500 ft. away. The angle of elevation the sea floor. The angle of depression is 29,
for the top of the office building is 23 and the and the instruments indicate that the direct-line
angle of depression for the base of the building distance between the ship and the object is
is 50. How tall is the office building? about 1400 ft. About how far below the
surface of the water is the object, and how far
must the ship travel to be directly over it?

1400
500

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