Further Maths in Context Study Guide

TAFE NSW Access Division 2003 53

Assi gnment 6 Trigonometry
Instructions:
Show all of your working out
Include units for each answer

Question 1 (3 Marks)
A backyard builder wishes to construct a rectangular sandpit for his two
children. He decides that suitable dimensions are
3 m long and 2 m wide.
(i) To help him build it properly (with 90
corners), he requires the distance
along the diagonal. How far should it
be along the diagonal?
Answer to the nearest 10 cm.
(ii) As a further check that his measurements are correct, he decides
to check the angle that the diagonal makes with the sandpits
length. By using trigonometry, what should that angle be? Answer
to the nearest degree.

Question 2 (2 Marks)
A house is 3.7 m higher than the roadway. A driveway is to be built from the
level of the road up to the level of the house. If the driveway has to be inclined
at an angle of 18 to the horizontal, how long will it need to be? (Hint: draw a
diagram)

Question 3 (6 Marks)
The diagram below is not drawn
to scale, but represents the
positions of a letterbox L and a
well W at the front of a country
estate. The letterbox is 315
metres from the well.

Local troublemakers threw a
dead cat C into the estate, and it
landed in a position that has a
bearing of 068
o
from the letterbox,
and also 342
o
from the well.

(i) Show that the angle LCW is 86.
(ii) If the well has a bearing of 127 from the letterbox, show that the
angle CLW is 59.
(iii) The gardener did not want the owner to get angry, so he picked the
cat up and ran over to the well and dropped it in. How far did the
gardener have to carry the cat if he ran straight over to the well after
picking up the cat?

L
W
C
N
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Question 4 (2 Marks)
The angle of depression of a ship 3.25 km out to sea was found to be 2.5
o
. If the
measurement of this angle was taken from the top of a cliff, how high was the
cliff to the nearest metre? (Hint: draw a diagram)

Question 5 (7 Marks)
Farmer Tsago wanted to run goats on his paddock, and carried out a plane
table survey of the paddock, which is in the shape of a quadrilateral, with
corners at A, B, C and D as shown. The bearings and distances measured are
given in the diagram below.





















The boundary fence AD adjoins a field that Farmer Tsago uses for growing
crops that the goats find particularly appetising. The fence needs to be
reinforced with a wire mesh that costs $2.85 per metre.
(i) What is the size of the angle AOD?
(ii) Use the Cosine Rule to determine the length of the boundary
fence AD.
(iii) Calculate the cost of the mesh required for the boundary fence
AD.
(iv) Find the area of the whole paddock ABCD to the nearest m.
(v) Tsagos goats require at least 470 m of healthy paddock each to
graze successfully. Assuming this paddock is healthy (and Tsago
brags that it is!), how many goats can be successfully stocked on
this paddock?



A
058
113 m
97 m
73 m
88 m
D
312
C
236
B
171
O
Not To Scale