Topic: Triangle Trigonometry

Sub-Topic: Word problems involving right triangles

OBJECTIVES
a. Use trigonometric ratios to solve real life problems involving right
triangles.
b. Identify the six trigonometric ratios.
c. Solve problem with perseverance and accuracy.

Things to Remember:

Six Trigonometric Ratios

𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑒

sin ∅ = csc ∅ = 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒
ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑒
𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑒
cos ∅ = sec ∅ = 𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒
ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑒
𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒
tan ∅ = cot ∅ =
𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒

Let’s Do This!

Analyze the problem and answer the questions below.

1. Luis who is on the roof top of Maliksi Building is watching his friend,
Joey, planting calamansi tree in the garden. The angle between his
eye level and his line of sight is 320.
a. What angle is identified in the problem: angle of elevation or angle
of depression? Justify your answer.
b. If Luis is 3 meters above the garden, approximately how far is Joey
from the Maliksi Building?
c. If Joey is 7 meters from Maliksi Building , approximately how high is
Luis above the ground?

1. Illustrate the given situation in question b?

2. How can you determine the approximate distance of Joey
from Maliksi Building?
3. What is the approximate distance of Joey from Maliksi Building?
 4. Illustrate the given situation in question c?
5. How can you determine the approximate height of Luis
above the ground?
6. What is the approximate height of Luis above the ground?

Solution:
a. angle of depression
b. tan ∅ = c. tan ∅ =
tan 320 = tan 320 =
x tan 320 = 3 m x = 7 (tan 320)
= x = 7 (0.625)
x = 4.8 m x = 4.375 m
(approximate distance of Joey (approximate height of Luis above
to Maliksi building) the ground)

2. When a 12 foot ladder is rest against a tree, the base of the ladder
forms an angle of 550 with the ground. How far up the tree does the
ladder reach?
I Can Do This!

Solve each of the following problems.

1. A 15-foot ladder makes a 520 angle with the ground. How far will
the top of the ladder be above the ground?
2. A guy wire on a telephone pole makes an angle of 640 with the
ground. One end of the wire is 12 meters above the ground.
How long is the wire?
3. When a student stands 127 feet from the base of a bell tower,
the angle of elevation to the top is 210. Find the height of the
tower.

Let’s Do More!

Directions: Work in pairs and find what is being asked.

1. Find the measure of A. 2. Find the altitude.

3 . Find the distance of the bird above the ground.

Challenge Yourself!

a. A kite has a string 400ft. long. If the string makes an angle of 42 0

with the ground, find the height of the kite to the nearest foot.
b. A hot air balloon rises vertically from a point 125ft on the level ground
from the launch site, the angle of elevation is 19.20 after the balloon
has risen. The next sighting from the same point on the ground has the
balloon angle of elevation is 31.70. if there hasn’t been any wind and
the balloon rose vertically how far did the balloon rise during the
second sighting?