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Practice sheet
Std: X Chapter 9_ Some applications of Trigonometry
Subject: Mathematics

Q I. A circus artist is climbing a 20 m long rope, which is tightly stretched and tied from
the top of a vertical pole to the ground. Find the height of the pole. if the angle made
by the rope with the ground level is 3Cf.
Q 2. A kite is flying at a height of 60 m above the ground. The string attached to the kite
is temporarily ried to a point on the ground. The inclination of the string with the
ground is 60°. Find the length of the string, assuming that there is no slack in the
string.
Q 3. From a point on the ground, the angle of elevation of LJ1e bollom and top of a
transmission tower fixed at the top of a 20 m high building are 4.f and 60'.
respectively. Find the height of the tower

Q4. A rhombus of side 14cm has two angles of60° each.

Find the lengths of the diagonals of the rhombus.

Q 5. A circus anist is climbing a 20 m long rope, which is tightly stretched and tied from
lhe top of a vertical pole to the ground. Find the height of the pole. if the angle made
by the rope with the ground level is 3(J>.
Q 6. An observer 2 m tall is 10✓3 m away from a tower. The angle of elevation from
his eye to the top of the tower is 3~. Find the height of the tower.

Find the angle of elevation of the sun, when the length of the shadow of a tree is
equal to rhe height of the tree.

Q 7. From a point Pon a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top tower is 30°. If
1he tower is 200 m high. find the distance of point P from the fool of the tower.

A man standing at a point P is watching the top of a tower l Om in height. wh ich

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makes an angle of elevarion of 30° w ilh the man's eye. The man walks some
distance towards the tower to watch its top and the angle of the elevatio n becomes
45°. Wl1at is the distance between the base of the tower and the point P?

Q 8. Two ships are sailing in the sea on the two sides of a lighthouse. The angle of
e levation of the top of U1e lighU10use is observed from the sbjps are 30" and 45°
respectively. lfU1e Lighlhousc is I 00 m high, find th e distance between U1e two
ships.
Q 9. Tbe angle of elevation of a ladder leaning against a waU is 60° and the foot of the
ladder is 12.4 m away from the wa ll. Find the length of the ladder.

Q I 0. A man on U1e top o f a vertica l observation tower observer a car moving at a unjform
speed coming directly towards it. Jf it ta kes 8 minutes for the ang le of depression to
change from 30° 10 45°, bow soon after this w ill the car reach the observation
tower?

Q 11 . A man is watching from the top of a tower a boat speed ing away from the tower.
The boat makes an angle of depression of 45° with the man's eye when a l a distance
of I00 metres from the tower. After IOseconds, the ang le of depression becomes
30°. What is the approximate speed of the boat, assum ing that it is ru nni11g in still
water?

Q 12. The top of a 15 metre rugh tower makes on angle of elevation of 60° with the
bottom of an electroruc pole and angle of elevation of 30° with the top of the pole.
What is the height of the e l.ectric pole?
Q 13. The angle of elevation of the top o f a tower from a certain point is 30°. If the
observer moves 40 m towards the tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the
tower increases by 15°. Find the he ig ht of the tower.

Q 14. On the same side of a tower, two objects are located. Observed from the top of the
tower, their angles of depression are 45° and 60°. If the height of the tower is 600
m, find the approximate distance between the objects.

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Q 15. A ladder 10 m long just reaches the top of a wall and makes an angle of 60°
with the waJJ. Find the distance of the foot of the ladder from t he

wall. ✓3 = 1.73

Q I 6. From a tower of 80 m high, the angle of depression of a bus is 30°. How far is the
bus from the tower?

Q 17. If the angles of elevation of the top of a tower from two points at a distance of 4 m
and 9 m from the base of the tower and in the same straight Line with it are
complementary, find the height of the tower.

Q 18. From the top of a hill I 00 111 high, the angles of depression of the top and bottom of
a pole are 30° and 60° respectively. What is the height of the pole?

Q 19. A lamp post SVJ m high cast a shadow Sm long on the ground. Find the sun's
elevation al that point.

Q 20. A bird is silling on the top of a tree, which is 180 m high. The angle of elevation of
the bird from a point on the ground is 450. The bird nies away from the point of
observation horizontally and remains at a constant height. After two seconds the
angle of elevation of the bird from the point of observation becomes 3D°. Find the
speed of flying of the bird

Q 2 1. The angle of elevation of the top of a building from the foot oftbe tower is 3Cf and
tbe angle of elevation of the top of the tower from the foot of the building is 45°. If
the tower is 30 m high. find the height of the building.

Q 22. At a point A, 20 m above the level of water in a lake, the angle of elevation of a
cloud is 30°. The angle of depression of the reflection of the cloud in the lake at A is
60°. Find tbe distance of the cloud from A.

Q 23. A ladder rests against a wall at angle a. to the horizontal. Its foot is pulled away
from the wa ll through a distance 'a ' . so that it slides a distance h down the wall,

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Q 24. An aeroplane, when flying at a height of 4000 m from the ground passes vertically
above another aeroplane at an instant when the angles of elevation of the two
planes from the same point on the ground are 60° and 45° respectively. Find the
vertical distance between tbe aeroplanes at that instant.
Q 25. From her elevated observation post 300 m away, a naturalist spots a troop of baboons high up
in a tree. Using the small transit attached to her telescope, she
finds the angle of depression to the bottom of this tree is 30°. whi le the angle of elevation to
the top of the tree is 60°. The angle of elevation to the troop of baboons is
45°. Use this infom1ation to find
(a) the height of the observation post.
(b) the height of the baboons' tree.
(c) the height of the baboons above ground.
Case Study Questions

1. A group of students of class X visited lndia Gate on an education trip. The teacher and
students had interest in history as well. The teacher nan-ated that Lndia Gate. official name
DelJ1i Memorial. originally called All-Lndia War Memorial, monumental sandstone arch in
New Delhi, dedicated to the troops of British lndia who died in wars fought between 1914 and
1919. The teacber also said that India Gate. which is located at the eastern end of the Raj path
(formerly ca lled lbc Kingsway), is about 138 feet (42 metres) in height.

(i) What is the angle of elevation if they are standing at o distance of 42m away from the monument'?
a. 30°
b. 45°
C. 60°
d. 0°

(ii) They want to sec the tower at an angle of 60°. So. they want to know the distance where they should
stnnd and hence (ind U1e distance.

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a. 25.24 m
b. 20. 12 m
c. 42 m
d. 24.64 m
(ii i) lftbe altitude of the Sun is at 60°. tben the height of the ve1tical tower that will cast a shadow of length
20 Ill is

a. 2o.fj m
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C. 15✓3 m
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(iv) The ratio of the length ofa rod and its shadow is I: I. The angle ofelevation of the Sun is
a. 30°
b. 45°
C. 60°
d. 90°
(v) TI1e angle formed by the line of sight with the horizontal when the object viewed is below the
horizontal level is

a. correspondi.ngangle
b. angle of elevation
c. angle of depression
d. complete angle

2. A Satellite tlying ai height b is watching the top of the two tallest mountains in Uttarakband and
Kamataka, them being Nanda Devi(height 7.8 16m) and Mullayanagiri (height 1.930 m). The angles of
depression from the satellite. to the top of Nanda Devi and Mullayanagiri are 30° and 60° respectively.
If the distance between the peaks of the two mountains is 1937 km. and the satellite is vertically above
the midpoint of the distance between the two mountains.

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(i) The distance of the satellite from the top of Nanda Devi is

a. 1139.4 km
b. 577.52 km
c. 1937 km

d. I 025.36 km
( ii) The distance of the satellite from Lhe lop of Mullayanagiri is

a. 1139.4 km

b. 577.52 km

c. 1937 km

d. I 025.36 km

(iii) The distance of the satellite from the ground is

a. 1139.4 km
b. 577.52 km

c. 1937km
d. 1025.36 km
( iv) What is the angle of elevation if a man is standing at a distance of78 I 6m from Nanda Devi?.

a. 30°
b. 45°
C. 60°
d. 90°
(v) If a mile stone ve,y far away from, makes 450 to the top ofMullanyangiri mountain. So, find the
distance of this mile stone from the mountain.

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a. I 11 8.327 km

b. 566.976 km
c. 1937km

d. I 025.36 km

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