Lost Treasure!!! A trigonometry group project Introduction Ateam of explorers finds a treasure map from 1747 with these directions to the treasure: From the tallest palin tree (1), sight the highest Mill (90, iC you sight the base of the ill at ine and wath 70 paces to the big red rock (R)- fie sight fine Between the palm tree and the fill Drop your eyes vertically unt Turn 40 degrees clockwise from the Trom there walk 50 paces back to U Dig there (X). the team contacts you to decipher the map and give The trouble is that after so long, the palm tree no longer exists. So, he position of the lost palm tree and write out an them a plan for finding the lost treasure. Determine a plan to locate t explanation of your procedure for the explorers. Directions OK! Let's begin, On the next page you will find a mostly blank map to use. Do the following work on that page. fe radius. Use the following ‘= Start at the red rock R, Draw a circle centered around R with an approy conversion factor to determine the radius: 10 paces = 1 centimeter, so 70 paces Z__om. Now find the point along the circle that has 40 degrees be the angle between the lines of sights to the hill H and the rock R. Mark this place P with a palm tree demonstrating your artistic merit. Next you are going to use trigonometry to determine the two distances you should walk towards the hill rom the palm. (On your drawing, draw a second circle around R representing 50 paces. You will notice that this circle crosses the PH line of sight at two spots. These are the predicted locations ofthe treasure! Now it’s a 50/50 chance on finding the treasure your frst try! Use the laws of triangles to solve forthe two distances to the treasure points. You should get answers in the units of paces. ; - 50. . 061A) , yg Sue sa, Zolgu) 999 Yeu) “aiid” yaaa BO gp lO cid 31.14 Dac (510) of) = Ke tN vee Yor Go. write Bell. 855° LAV e 190 15.455 -e1< DI X31 GIGH3 45.96 Lego ead ceShMP 2 M3.6047 x3-13053 4. 50S, 198°, $05 7H. naa) 6 — xe op RS ET The first distance from the palm along the line of sight to the hits bs ft. From this first spot, walk an additional . ft towards the hill to find the second spot to dig. ‘Move on to page 3 for detailing the plan. 1 Written by Zeph Smith, Salt Lake Community College, 2017 ‘Scanned with CamScanner‘Scanned with CamScanner1e exactly what to do. The and a protractor. You all so they can accurately N . ow You are going to detail your plan for nding the treasure so you can tell your team on sit GRY eaulpment they have to work wits a tape measute, lots of rope, 2 sharp knife, shovels, lecide that a pace will be approximated by 3 feet, so make sure to convert your numbers to feet measure! " Pee Pad Grog cine CW), fle (058 455 SPor werk 130,924 E+ MEAS pe verty Bas PPR C43.6097 Paces) Towels tox Wor) the a5 TO Fwd trengnyd , DL. Awotvad’ Person si sreugsat OF Red yoRk (A) wih LIOFY oF fof B. THAD PxSoN conROS HR LOH POR eek FOR Rava len COR FO HE are, 10° oa ee Sank Pail 4748 Be Fonew woe ROP that weoas-re Ht fee 45 aoa He8 GSI Peed) ad 3.5- THAD Jieehg 1S Fond Prod’ to Sted &. Reflection Discuss the things you have learned in your trigonometry class and how they may apply to the real world. Can you make the argument that trigonometry is a useful tool? ‘What kinds of things have you learned that can be useful in your particular career path? Please be specific and give multiple examples to back up your statements. Your reflection heeds to be typed - not hand written - and included with your submission. Length may vary, but should be long enough to answer the questions with meaninaful responses. course. Scan or save a copy of your finished report to upload to tif itis (PD, (ressus 0 verre ievereC) Math 1060 is @ Quantitative Literacy General Education your SLCC e-Portfolio so that it can be found under this category. You will NOT receive a grade forthe assignment ions for the e-Portfolio are posted on the Canvas site for this course. not uploaded to your e-Portfolio. Instructis ‘Scanned with CamScannerReflection Thave learned a lot of very useful things In trigonometry. I have learned things such as how to plot trig functions (sine, cosine, tangent, etc.), find missing angles or sides from triangles using various methods, And how to solve difficult real-world problems. Trigonometry is an extremely useful tool to have when moving into the real world especially in jobs such as engineering, game design, architects, and more. I plan on going into robotics engineering and I know that I will have to use trigonometry to accomplish tasks with robots especially when testing robots’ ability to move an exact distance around a triangle-shaped course. I can mathematically figure out how far the robot needs to travel and what degrees it needs to turn. The values could also be applied to the robot’s programming. Scanned with CamScanner