Trigonometry T/16

Find the size of the angle marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2
3 4
1 0.602
1 0.839 8
5 15
? 11
?
? ?

5 6 7 8
? ?
?
? 1
0.7
9 8 1.54
1 1.09
0.866

9 10 11 12 ?

30.6 0.904
17.7 ? 2.74 58 46 13.8 15.3
?
?

13 14 15 16
5.1
? 4.36
3.68
2.7 ? 18.5
? 4.63
6.4 21.4
?

17 18 19 20
? ?

22.1 312
34.47
123
26.1 ?
? 382
28.35

78
 Trigonometry T/17
Find the length of the edge marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles.
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3
9
? 14
? 23

35º
48º 52º
?

4 5 6 47.
4 º
24.5º
?
?
8.3 ?
16.2
º
34.8
7.6

?
7 8 9
º
.5
54

8.45
22.9
23.8 º
?
43.2
?

º
36.3

10 11 12
43

16
.6 ?
.8

º
º

?
17.6
º 31.4
7 .8
6
3.81 ?
º
72.7º

85.4

13 ? 14 15
?
?

29.4 12.8
6.48
80.6º
 Trigonometry T/18
Find the length of the edge marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles.
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3

6º
54.
?
?
?
10
26.5
º
47. 18
1º

4 11.4 6
5 8.65
27.6 º

34.4
?
?
21.2 º
º9

?
53.

7 8 9

º
.3
24
?
62
.5 º
5.7 ?
? 41.1
36.8

2.06
º

º
8.7

10 12
º 11
4.22 .3
47 ?
19.3
?
º
37.4
?

107
75.6 º
72.1º

13 14 15
66.2
º

?
68.48
?
?
439

269
 Trigonometry T/19
Find the length of the edge, or size of the angle, marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles.
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3 4
?
17 14 23
? 35 24
40º
?
º ?
63
7.6

.5º 7 8
5 72 6
?
º
? .6
? 23
? 13.8 48
º
.4

21.9
67

5.4
13

9 10 11 12
22.1
34

3.84 12.8 º
.9º

.4 2.09
54
? ? ? 65.7º
5.36

13 14 15 16 ?
28.3 56
.1
º
? 25.5
8.36
56.1
?
.2º

10.4 ?
57

38.3

17 18 19 20
62.8º

38.2º
.7º

? 16.49
72
42

.6º

3.75 ?
30.65
?
1.064

?
 Trigonometry T/21
(Using sines)
1. A ladder is 8 metres long. It is leaning against the 14. A house is sited just 150 metres from a straight section
wall of a house and reaches 6 metres up the wall. of road. The path to the house is straight, but is inclined
Calculate the angle which the ladder must make with at an angle of 54 degrees to the road. What is the
the level ground. length of the path?
2. A kite-string has a total length of 75 metres. Calculate 15. The diagonal of an oblong is 15 cm long and makes
the height at which the kite must be flying when the an angle of 56º with one of its edges. Calculate the
string is fully out and is making an angle 37 degrees size of the oblong.
with the level ground. 16. A vertical tent-pole is kept upright by ropes of length
3. The longest edge of an oblong measures 8 cm and its 4 metres tied to the top of the pole and to pegs in the
diagonal is 10 cm. What is the angle formed between ground. These ropes make an angle of 43º with the
the diagonal and the longest edge? ground. What is the height of the tent-pole?
4. A television mast is stayed by a single wire cable 17. A telegraph-pole is supported by a stay-wire which
which is 60 metres long. The stay is fastened to the is fastened to a point halfway up the pole. The stay-
top of the mast and to the ground. It makes an angle wire is 8 metres long and makes an angle of 56º with
of 58º with ground. Find the height of the mast. ground. Find the height of the pole.
5. A slipway for a lifeboat is 50 metres long and is 18. A kite-string is 48 metres long. During one 'flight',
inclined at an angle of 35º to the horizontal.What is when the wind strenghtened. the angle between the
the height of the floor of the boathouse above the kite-string and the ground was seen to double in size
level of the sea? from 27º to 54º. What was the resulting increase in
6. The longest edge of a 30/60 set-square is 18 cm the vertical height of the kite above the ground?
long. Calculate the length of its shortest edge. 19. A rhombus has edge-lengths of 7 cm. Its acute interior
7. The ribbons of a maypole are 10 metres long. During vertex angles are both 70º. Calculate the lengths of
the course of a dance the dancers are moving in a both of its diagonals.
circle around the pole and about 3.5 metres away (The diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other
from it. What then is the angle between the ribbons and cross at right angles.)
and the ground? 20. A rod 1 metre long is hanging on a wall. If the bottom
8. Measured on a map, the distance between the tops end of the rod is pulled out 20 centimetres from the
of two hills is 570 metres. The angle of elevation from wall, what angle will the rod make with the wall?
the top of the smaller of the two hills, to the the top of 21. An 8 metre ladder leaning against a wall makes an
the taller one is 27º. The tops of these hills are to be angle of 63º with the ground. How far is the foot of
joined by a cable on which a ski-lift will run. What the ladder away from the wall?
length of cable will be needed? 22. A parallelogram has edge-lengths of 5 cm and 9 cm
9. An isosceles triangle has two equal edges of length respectively, and an angle of 58º between them.
8 cm. Its two equal angles measure 15.3º. What is Calculate the perpendicular distance between the two
the length of its other edge? longer edges.
10. One section of a mountain-railway is 550 metres long. 23. A pair of railway-lines are 143.5 cm apart. On one
In that length is rises through a vertical height of 140 particular curved section the 'banking' is formed by
metres. Calculate the overall average angle of raising the outer rail 8 cm above the level of the inner
inclination of the track. rail. When a train is being driven around this curve,
11. A 12 metre ladder is leaning against a wall. The foot by how much does it lean out of the vertical?
of the ladder is 3.5 metres away from the base of the 24. The legs of a camera tripod are each 130 cm long.
wall. What is the size of the angle which ladder makes The tripod is set up on a piece of level ground so that
with the ground? each leg makes an angle of 70º with the gound. What
12. An isosceles triangle has two edges of length 11 cm is the vertical height of the top of the tripod above the
and one of length 8 cm. Find the sizes of all its angles. ground?
13. A drilling-platform for an oil-rig is moored in the sea 25. A path going up a cliff-face from the bottom to the
at a point where it is 130 metres deep. The average top is 700 metres long. Its overall average inclination
angle of the anchor cable with the horizontal is 28º. to the horizontal is 15º. What is the height of the cliff-
What length of cable is needed? face?
 Trigonometry T/22
Find the size of the angle marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3

23
9
7
10
?
21
?
?
9

4 12.4 6
5 43.8

10.1
3.7 56.2
16.5 ?
?
?

7 8 9 ?
27.1
51.8
?

3.95 2.14 13.3 60.7

?
10 11 12
? ?
258

56
18.06

12.46
266

11.4

86.8 ?
? 13 14 15
2.11 ?

6.084 32.0
231.5

18.3
 Trigonometry T/23
Find the length of the edge marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles.
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3
12
? ?
17 34

38º
53º 57º
?

4 ? 5 6 49.
3 º
30.6 º
17.8
4.4
? 31.6

º
38.2
?

?
7 8 9
º
.6
58

6.93
25.3º
?
18.8 56.8
?

º
29.4

10 11 12
46

20
.0

.9
º ?
º

? ?
º
8.2
5
47.81 7.25 79.31
º
81.5º

84.5

13 18.13 14 15
?
?

35.57
78.2º

269.8
 Trigonometry T/24
Find the length of the edge, or size of the angle, marked ? in each of these right-angled triangles.
Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3 4 18
23 ?
17 ?
32
40º
? 45
14 º
50
?
15.3
.6 º
5 78 6 7 8
21.8

25.7
?

º
? 6.19 ?
27.4 20.3
?
61.8º

9 10 11 12
?
? 24.6 ? ?
º
32.2 5.6 73.7º
7.28
7.15 45.8

54.2

13 14 ? 15 16 ?
11.5 64
.1
º
60.3 52.6

15.1 6º
? º 52. 3.45
.8
27 ?

17 18 19 20
56.7º

37.7º
.5º

?
67
46

.3
º

10.36 ?
?
306
6.274

15.38
 Trigonometry T/26
Find length of edge (or size of angle) marked x in each of these diagrams. Drawings are NOT to scale.

1 2 3

68º
63º

7c
m

28 cm
x2
x1

23
cm
º
x1

52
x1 x2 x2
28 º 34 º
9 cm

4 5 12 6
.4
cm x2
cm
.7
12

14.7 cm
27.3
º x1 x1
º x1 º
19.2 º .2 .5
x2 35 º 73
x2 .6
42
16.1 cm

7 8 9
50.6
m
20.3 º

m
9m x2 x2
cm

6 x1
17

1
x1
.6
9

x1
14.

mc

º 58
.2
22.7 º m
5
52.
.4 º

x2
71

10 11 12
x3 6.3
7c
m

28.3 º 26.8 º
x2
23.3 m

x1 x2 x1
15 x2
. 6 cm
.6
74

cm º 38º
15 47
.6
º

x1

13 14 15
cm
5.8 167
x1 m
57º
40 º 25º
x 38º
x2
7.3
8.4 cm

cm

22
41º º

x
 Trigonometry T/27
Drawings on this sheet are NOT to scale.

1. In the drawing on the right ABCD is a square. A B

x
AP = 5 cm QC = 7 cm PB = 12 cm
Calculate
(a) the size of the angle marked x
(b) the length of AB P
(c) the length of DQ
(d) the length of PD
(e) the size of ∠ BQD D
Q
C

B
2. In the drawing on the left CDEF is a square.
EF = 4.7 cm ∠ BCF = 36º ∠ BAE = 28º
F C
Calculate the lengths of
(a) BF
(b) AB
A E D (c) AD

3. KLMN is a trapezium with LM parallel to KN.

LM = 8.4 cm KN = 19.6 cm
L M
KL = 10.7 cm ∠ LKN = 58º
Calculate
(a) the perpendicular distance between the parallel edges
(b) the area of the trapezium
K N
(c) the perimeter of the trapezium.

4. B C ABCD is a parallelogram
AB = 3.8 cm BC = 7.9 cm ∠ BAD = 48º
Calculate
(a) the area of the parallelogram
A D (b) the length of the longer diagonal AC.

5. In the triangle PQR, S is the foot of the perpendicular from Q to PR.

Q
QS = 7.5 cm ∠ QPR = 75º ∠ QRP = 40º
Calculate
(a) the length of SR
(b) the length of PS
(c) the length of QR
(d) the perimeter of triangle PQR
(e) the area of triangle PQR.
P S R