TRIGONOMETRY

I. Multiple Choice

1. The study and measurement of three angular figures.

a. Trigonometry b. Plane Trigonometry c. Spherical Trigonometry d. None of these

2. Refer to the problems involving angles, the distance between two points on business graphs in demand and
supply equations, and triangles on one plane.
a. Trigonometry b. Plane Trigonometry c. Spherical Trigonometry d. None of these

3. He was a Greek Philosopher responsible for important developments in mathematics and astronomy and prove
that the sum of squares of the legs of the right triangle in equal to the square of the longest leg.
a. Pythagoras of Samos b. Hiparchus c. Menelaus d. Ptolemy

4. He was the originator of the science of trigonometry and calculated a table of chords in 12 books.
a. Pythagoras of Samos b. Hiparchus c. Menelaus d. Ptolemy

5. He produced the Almagest a work in astronomy in 13 books at around the middle of the 2 nd century.
a. Pythagoras b. Hiparchus c. Menelaus d. Ptolemy

6. An Arab mathematician who lived in the late 9 th century added the law of cosine for oblique spherical triangles
and introduced the sine for the chord into the work of Ptolemy.
a. Al-Battani b. Abu al-Wafa c. Jabin d. Francois Viete

7. A French mathematician who came up with the essential formula for the calculation of the cosine law for the
oblique triangle.
a. Al-Battani b. Abu al-Wafa c. Jabin d. Francois Viete

8. A famous Philosopher and mathematician best known for his invention of the coordinate system and his work in
conic sections.
a. Rene Descartes b. John Napier c. Leonard Euler d. Joseph Fourier

9. He invented the logarithm for powers of the fixed number such that a desired numerical result is obtained as the
power of the given fixed number.
a. Rene Descartes b. John Napier c. Abraham de Moivre d. None of these

10. He states the theorem on complex numbers in trigonometric form.

a. Rene Descartes b. John Napier c. Abraham de Moivre d. None of these

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