Practice Paper - HOTS

Subject: Math Ch 8:Introduction to Trigonometry

Std:X Answer Scheme

Q. No. Questions

1. A moving boat is observed from the top of a 150 m high cliff moving away from the cliff.
The angle of depression of the boat changes from 60° to 45° in 2 minutes. Find the speed
of the boat in m/hr.
2. A window of a house is h metres above the ground. From the window, the angles of
elevation and depression of the top and the bottom of another house situated on the
opposite side of the lane are found to be α and β respectively. Prove that the height of the
other house is h 1  tan  cot   metres
3. The angle of elevation of the top of a tower at a point is 45°. After moving a distance p
towards the foot of the tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is found to be
p tan 
θ. Prove that the height of the tower is
tan  
4. A carpenter makes stools for electricians with a square top of side 0.5 m and at a height of
1.5 m above the ground. Also, each leg is inclined at an angle of 60° to the ground. Find
the length of each leg.
5. The angle of elevation of a cloud from a point 60 m above a lake is 30° and the angle of
depression of the reflection of the cloud in the lake is 60°. Find the height of the cloud.
6. The lower window of a house is at a height of 2 m above the ground and its upper window
is 4 m vertically above the lower window. At certain instant the angles of elevation of a
balloon from these windows are observed to be 600 and 300 respectively. Find the height
of the balloon above the ground.
7. A ladder rests against a wall at an angle α to the horizontal. Its foot is pulled away from
the wall through a distance a, so that it slides a distance b down the wall making an angle
β with the horizontal, show that:
a cos   cos 

b sin   cos 

8. The angle of elevation of the top of the tower from two points A and B at distance of
p and q from the base and in the same straight line with it are complementary. Prove that
the height of the tower is pq .

9. A vertical tower stands on a horizontal plane and is surmounted by a vertical flag-staff of

height h. At a point on the plane, the angles of elevation of the bottom and the top of the
flag-staff are α and β respectively. Prove that the height of the tower is
h tan 
tan   tan 

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10. A contractor plans to install two slides for the children to play in a park. For the children
below the age of 5 years, she prefers to have a slide whose top is at a height of 1.5 m, and
is inclined at an angle of 30° to the ground, whereas for elder children, she wants to have a
steep slide at a height of 3 m, and inclined at an angle of 60° to the ground. What should
be the length of the slide in each case?
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 Practice Paper – Case Study Questions

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

Case Study Questions

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

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

(ii) They want to see the tower at an angle of 60°. So, they want to know the distance where they should
stand and hence find the distance.
a. 25.24 m
b. 20.12 m
c. 42 m
d. 24.64 m

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(iii) If the altitude of the Sun is at 60o, then the height of the vertical tower that will cast a shadow of length
20 m is

a. 20 3 m
20
b. m
3
c. 15 3 m
15
d. m
3
(iv) The ratio of the length of a rod and its shadow is 1:1. The angle of elevation of the Sun is
a. 30°
b. 45°
c. 60°
d. 90°
(v) The angle formed by the line of sight with the horizontal when the object viewed is below the
horizontal level is

a. corresponding angle
b. angle of elevation
c. angle of depression
d. complete angle

Case Study 2
2. A Satellite flying at height h is watching the top of the two tallest mountains in Uttarakhand and
Karnataka, them being Nanda Devi(height 7,816m) 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. 1025.36 km
(ii) The distance of the satellite from the top of Mullayanagiri is

a. 1139.4 km
b. 577.52 km

c. 1937 km

d. 1025.36 km

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

a. 1139.4 km
b. 577.52 km

c. 1937 km
d. 1025.36 km
(iv) What is the angle of elevation if a man is standing at a distance of 7816m from Nanda Devi?.

a. 30°
b. 45°
c. 60°
d. 90°
(v) If a mile stone very far away from, makes 45o to the top of Mullanyangiri mountain. So, find the
distance of this mile stone from the mountain.
a. 1118.327 km
b. 566.976 km
c. 1937 km

d. 1025.36 km

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 PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (CBSE)
Practice sheet
Std: X Chapter 9_Some applications of Trigonometry
Subject: Mathematics

Q 1. 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 30o.
Q 2. A kite is flying at a height of 60 m above the ground. The string attached to the kite
is temporarily tied to a point on the ground. The inclination of the string with the
ground is 60o. 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 the bottom and top of a
transmission tower fixed at the top of a 20 m high building are 45 and 60 ,
respectively. Find the height of the tower

Q 4. A rhombus of side 14cm has two angles of 60° each.

Find the lengths of the diagonals of the rhombus.

Q 5. 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 30
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 30º. 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 the height of the tree.

Q 7. From a point P on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top tower is 30º. If
the tower is 200 m high, find the distance of point P from the foot of the tower.

A man standing at a point P is watching the top of a tower 10m in height, which

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 makes an angle of elevation of 30º with the man's eye. The man walks some
distance towards the tower to watch its top and the angle of the elevation becomes
45º. What 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
elevation of the top of the lighthouse is observed from the ships are 30º and 45º
respectively. If the lighthouse is 100 m high, find the distance between the two
ships.
Q 9. The angle of elevation of a ladder leaning against a wall is 60º and the foot of the
ladder is 12.4 m away from the wall. Find the length of the ladder.

Q 10. A man on the top of a vertical observation tower observer a car moving at a uniform
speed coming directly towards it. If it takes 8 minutes for the angle of depression to
change from 30° to 45°, how soon after this will the car reach the observation
tower?

Q 11. A man is watching from the top of a tower a boat speeding away from the tower.
The boat makes an angle of depression of 45° with the man's eye when at a distance
of 100 metres from the tower. After 10 seconds, the angle of depression becomes
30°. What is the approximate speed of the boat, assuming that it is running in still
water?

Q 12. The top of a 15 metre high tower makes an angle of elevation of 60° with the
bottom of an electronic pole and angle of elevation of 30° with the top of the pole.
What is the height of the electric pole?
Q 13. The angle of elevation of the top of 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 height 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 wall. Find the distance of the foot of the ladder from the

wall. 3  1.73

Q 16. 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 100 m 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 m high cast a shadow 5m long on the ground. Find the sun’s
elevation at that point.

Q 20. A bird is sitting 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 45o. The bird flies 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 30o. Find the
speed of flying of the bird

Q 21. The angle of elevation of the top of a building from the foot of the tower is 30o and
the angle of elevation of the top of the tower from the foot of the building is 45o. 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 30o. The angle of depression of the reflection of the cloud in the lake at A is
60o. Find the distance of the cloud from A.

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

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 making an angle with the horizontal. Show that .

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 60º and 45º respectively. Find the
vertical distance between the 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 30o, while the angle of elevation to
the top of the tree is 60o. The angle of elevation to the troop of baboons is
45o. Use this information 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 India Gate on an education trip. The teacher and
students had interest in history as well. The teacher narrated that India Gate, official name
Delhi Memorial, originally called All-India War Memorial, monumental sandstone arch in
New Delhi, dedicated to the troops of British India who died in wars fought between 1914 and
1919. The teacher also said that India Gate, which is located at the eastern end of the Rajpath
(formerly called the Kingsway), is about 138 feet (42 metres) in height.

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

(ii) They want to see the tower at an angle of 60o. So, they want to know the distance where they should
stand and hence find the distance.

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 a. 25.24 m
b. 20.12 m
c. 42 m
d. 24.64 m
(iii) If the altitude of the Sun is at 60o, then the height of the vertical tower that will cast a shadow of length
20 m is

a. 20 3 m
20
b. m
3
c. 15 3 m
15
d. m
3
(iv) The ratio of the length of a rod and its shadow is 1:1. The angle of elevation of the Sun is
a. 30°
b. 45°
c. 60°
d. 90°
(v) The angle formed by the line of sight with the horizontal when the object viewed is below the
horizontal level is

a. corresponding angle
b. angle of elevation
c. angle of depression
d. complete angle

2. A Satellite flying at height h is watching the top of the two tallest mountains in Uttarakhand and
Karnataka, them being Nanda Devi(height 7,816m) 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. 1025.36 km
(ii) The distance of the satellite from the top of Mullayanagiri is

a. 1139.4 km
b. 577.52 km

c. 1937 km

d. 1025.36 km

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

a. 1139.4 km
b. 577.52 km

c. 1937 km
d. 1025.36 km
(iv) What is the angle of elevation if a man is standing at a distance of 7816m from Nanda Devi?.

a. 30°
b. 45°
c. 60°
d. 90°
(v) If a mile stone very far away from, makes 45o to the top of Mullanyangiri mountain. So, find the
distance of this mile stone from the mountain.

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 a. 1118.327 km
b. 566.976 km
c. 1937 km

d. 1025.36 km

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 PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (CBSE)
Practice sheet Answer Scheme
Std: X Chapter 9_Some applications of Trigonometry
Subject: Mathematics

Q 1. 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 30o.
Q 2. A kite is flying at a height of 60 m above the ground. The string attached to the kite is temporarily
tied to a point on the ground. The inclination of the string with the ground is 60o. 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 the bottom and top of a transmission tower
fixed at the top of a 20 m high building are 45 and 60 , respectively. Find the height of the tower

Q 4. A rhombus of side 14cm has two angles of 60° each. Find the
lengths of the diagonals of the rhombus.

Q 5. 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 30
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 30º. 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 the height
of the tree.

Q 7. From a point P on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top tower is 30º. If the tower is 200
m high, find the distance of point P from the foot of the tower.

A man standing at a point P is watching the top of a tower 10m in height, which makes an angle of
elevation of 30º with the man's eye. The man walks some distance towards the tower to watch its
top and the angle of the elevation becomes 45º. What is the distance between the base of the tower

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 and the point P?

Q 8. Two ships are sailing in the sea on the two sides of a lighthouse. The angle of elevation of the top
of the lighthouse is observed from the ships are 30º and 45º respectively. If the lighthouse is 100 m
high, find the distance between the two ships.
Q 9. The angle of elevation of a ladder leaning against a wall is 60º and the foot of the ladder is 12.4 m
away from the wall. Find the length of the ladder.

Q 10. A man on the top of a vertical observation tower observer a car moving at a uniform speed coming
directly towards it. If it takes 8 minutes for the angle of depression to change from 30° to 45°, how
soon after this will the car reach the observation tower?

Q 11. A man is watching from the top of a tower a boat speeding away from the tower. The boat makes
an angle of depression of 45° with the man's eye when at a distance of 100 metres from the tower.
After 10 seconds, the angle of depression becomes 30°. What is the approximate speed of the boat,
assuming that it is running in still water?

Q 12. The top of a 15 metre high tower makes an angle of elevation of 60° with the bottom of an
electronic pole and angle of elevation of 30° with the top of the pole. What is the height of the
electric pole?
Q 13. The angle of elevation of the top of 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 height
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.

Q 15. A ladder 10 m long just reaches the top of a wall and makes an angle of 60° with the wall. Find the
distance of the foot of the ladder from the wall. 3  1.73

Q 16. From a tower of 80 m high, the angle of depression of a bus is 30°. How far is the bus from the
tower?

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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 100 m 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 m high cast a shadow 5m long on the ground. Find the sun’s elevation at that
point.

Q 20. A bird is sitting 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 45° The bird flies 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 30o. Find the speed of flying of the bird

Q 21. The angle of elevation of the top of a building from the foot of the tower is 30o and the angle of
elevation of the top of the tower from the foot of the building is 45o. 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 30o. The
angle of depression of the reflection of the cloud in the lake at A is 60o. Find the distance of the
cloud from A.

Q 23. A ladder rests against a wall at angle to the horizontal. Its foot is pulled away from the wall
through a distance ‘a’, so that it slides a distance b down the wall, making an angle with the

horizontal. Show that .

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 60º and 45º respectively. Find the vertical distance
between the aeroplanes at that instant.
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 Practice Paper - MCQ
Subject: Mathematics Ch 9_ Some applications of Trigonometry
Std:X Max. Marks: 15

General Instructions:
1. The Practice Paper comprises MCQs.
2. Attempt all questions.

Q. No. Questions Marks

1. If the height of a tower and the distance of the point of observation from its foot,
both, are increased by 10%, then the angle of elevation of its top
a. Increases
b. decreases
c. remains unchanged
d. no relation
2. A ladder 15 metres long just reaches the top of a vertical wall. If the ladder makes
an angle of 60° with the wall, then the height of the wall will be
a. 7.5 m
b. 7.7 m
c. 8.5 m
d. 8.8 m
3. The angle of elevation of the top of a building from a point on the ground, which 1
is 30 m away from the foot of the building, is 30°. The height of the building is:
a. 10 m
b. 30 m
30
c. m
3
3
d. m
10
4. A building is 200 3m high. Then, the angle of elevation of its top from a 200 m
away from its foot is

a. 90°
b. 30°
c. 60°
d. 45°
5. If a tower 6m high casts a shadow of 2√3 m long on the ground, then the sun’s
elevation is:

a. 60°
b. 45°
c. 30°
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d. 90°
6. The angle of elevation of the top of a building 30 m high from the foot of another 1
building in the same plane is 60°, and also the angle of elevation of the top of the
second tower from the foot of the first tower is 30°, then the distance between the
two buildings is

a. 10 3 m
b. 15 3 m
c. 12 3 m
d. 36 m
7. A plane is observed to be approaching the airport. It is at a distance of 12 km from 1
the point of observation and makes an angle of elevation of 60°. The height above
the ground of the plane is
a. 6 3 m
b. 4 3 m
c. 3 3 m
d. 2 3 m
8. The tops of two poles of height 20 m and 14 m are connected by a wire. If the
wire makes an angle of 30° with horizontal, the length of the wire is
a. 6 m
b. 10 m
c. 12 m
d. 20 m
9. If two towers of heights h1 and h2 subtend angles of 60° and 30° respectively at 1
the mid-point of the line joining their feet, then h1 : h2 =
a. 1 : 2
b. 1 : 3
c. 2 : 1
d. 3 : 1
10. A man standing at a height 6 m observes the top of a tower and the foot of tower 1
at angles of 45° and 30° of elevation and depression respectively. The height of
tower is:
a. 6 3m
b. 12 m

c. 6 3–1 m 
d. 6 3+1 m
11. Two poles are 25 m and 15 m high and the line joining their tops makes an angle 1
of 45° with the horizontal. The distance between these poles is:
a. 5 m
b. 8 m
c. 9 m
d. 10 m

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12. From a point on the ground, the angles of elevation of the bottom and top of a tr 1
mission tower fixed at the top of 20m high building are 45°and 60° respectively.
The height of the tr mission tower is :
a. 14.64 m
b. 28.64 m
c. 38.64 m
d. 19.64 m
13. A circus artist is climbing a 20m long rope, which is tightly stretched and tied 1
from the top of a vertical pole of the ground. Find the height of the pole if the
angle made by the rope with the ground level is 30°.
a. 5 m
b. 10 m
c. 15 m
d. 20 m
14. The length of the string between a kite and a point on the ground is 85 meters. If 1
15
the string makes angle θ with the ground level such that tan   then the height
8
of the kite is

a. 75 m
b. 78.05 m
c. 226 m
d. None of these
15. From the top of a 7 m high building the angle of elevation of the top of a cable
tower is 60°and the angle of depression of the foot is 45°, then the height of the
tower is

a. 14.124 m
b. 17.124 m
c. 19.124 m
d. 15.124 m
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