Trigonometry Worksheet #2

Activity 1:
a) Identify the pairs of alternate interior angles: __________________________

b) Solve tan 540 = 2500

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. Round to the nearest hundredth.

Activity 2: Fill in the blanks

Angle of elevation is an angle between a

and a line of sight where the angle is the horizontal line.
Angle of depression is an angle between a and a line of sight
where the angle is _ the horizontal line.
Couple of Things to Notice:
1) The two horizontal lines are to each other
and the angle of elevation and depression are .
Angles that do this are called .
2) If you draw in a , then a is formed.

Activity 3: Describe each angle as it relates to the situation shown.

Angle 1:

Angle 2:

Angle 3:

Angle 4:

Activity 4 : Label each diagram and then complete each word problem. Round to tenth place

a.) A palm tree casts a shadow of 18 feet long.
The angle of elevation of the sun is 25.7°.
Find the height of the palm tree.
b.) A sign on a roadway at bottom of a mountain road
indicates that the road will incline 10.5° with the
ground. The altitude for a car ascending up the
mountain road is 3,850 ft. Find the length of the
mountain road in miles.
c.) The sonar of a navy cruiser detects a submarine
that is 4000 feet from the cruiser. The angle between
the water line and the submarine is 34°.
How deep is the submarine?
e.) From a point on the ground 500 feet from the base
of the building, it is observed that the angle of
elevation to the top of the building is 24° and the
angle of elevation to the top of the flagpole atop of the
building is 27°. Find the height of the flagpole.
Activity 5 : Draw a diagram and then complete each word problem. Round to tenth place.
a.) A skateboard ramp at a park has an inclination of
54° and its base is 12 feet long. What is the length of
the ramp?
b.) You are 200 yards from a river. Rather than
walking directly to the river, you walk 400 yards
along a straight path to the river’s edge. What is the
angle between this path and the river’s edge?
d.) A 20-ft ladder leans against a house and the base
of the ladder is 5 feet from the base of the house.
What is the angle formed by the ladder and the
ground?
f.) A 2 meter television camera at ground level is
filming the lift-off of a space shuttle at a point 750
meters from the launch pad. The camera’s angle of
elevation to the shuttle is 32° at this specific time.
Find the height of the shuttle.
c.) A water tower is located 325 feet from a building.
From a window in the building it is observed that the
angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 39° and the
angle of depression to the bottom of the tower is 25°.
How tall is the tower?
 Past Paper Questions

A plane takes off at an angle of elevation of 17° to the ground. After 25 seconds the plane has travelled a horizontal
distance of 2400 m
i. Draw a sketch to represent the information.
ii. Calculate to 2 significant figures the height of the plane above the ground after 25 seconds

2. A boy standing on a vertical cliff, 50 m high, is looking down an angle of depression of 20°at a car. How far is
the car from the base of the cliff?

3. A vertical pole stands on horizontal ground. From the top of the pole, h metres high, the angle of depression of
a spot 10 m from the foot of the pole is 25°.
i. Sketch a diagram to represent this information, showing the pole, the ground and the measurements
given.
ii. Calculate the value of h.

4.

The diagram above (not drawn to scale) shows the angles of elevation of T, the top of a vertical mast
from the points P and Q from the same side of R on a horizontal plane. P, Q and R lie on a straight line.
PQ = 25 meters, angles TPQ and TQR are 53.1° and 64.6° respectively.
i. Show that the length of QT is 100 metres to the nearest metre.
ii. Hence or otherwise calculate the height of the mast.

5.

TF is a vertical flagpole, F, M and P are points on the same horizontal plane. Two ropes TP and TM are
attached to the top of the pole. The angles of depression of M and of P from T are 60° and 40°
respectively. TP = 15 m, and TM = 11 m, and angle PFM = 45°.
Calculate the length of
a. PF
b. MP