LEARNING (Height & Distance)

1. A tall tree stands vertically on a bank of a river. At the point on the other bank directly opposite
the tree, the angle of elevation of the top of the tree is 60 o. At a point 20m behind this point on
the same bank, the angle of elevation of the top of the tree is 30o. Find the width of the river.

2. As observed from the top of a 100 m tall light house, the angles of depression of two ships
approaching it are 30o and 45o. If one ship is directly behind the other, find the distance between
the two ships.

3. The upper part of a tree broken over by the wind, makes an angle 30o with the ground, and the
distance from the root to the point where the top of the tree touches the ground is 15 m; what was
the height of the tree?

4. The angles of depression of the top and the bottom of a 7 m tall building from top of a tower are
45o and 60o, respectively. Find the height of the tower.

5. A bird moving in a straight line passes over points A and B on a horizontal plane 100 m apart.
When above A it has angle of elevation 60o as seen from B, and when above B, 30o as seen from
A. Find the distance from A of the point at which it will land to the plane.

6. DE is a tower standing on a horizontal plane and ABCD is a straight line in the plane. The height
of the tower subtends angle  at A, 2 and B, and 3 at C. Find the height of the tower if
AB = 50m, BC = 20m.

7. A vertical tree stands at a point A on a bank of a canal. The angle of elevation of its top from a
point ‘B’ on the other bank of the canal and directly opposite to A is 60o. The angle of elevation
of the top from another point C is 30o. If A, B, C are on the same horizontal plane, ABC = 120o
and BC = 20m, find the height of the tree and the width of the canal.

8. A pole stands at the bank of a circular pond. A man walking along the bank finds that the angle
of elevation of the top of the pole from the points A and B is 30o and from point C is 45o. If the
distance from A to B and from B to C measured along the bank are 40m and 20m respectively,
find the radius of the pond and the height of the pole.

9. A, B, C and D are four points at the bank of a circular pond. A tower stands at point D. The
angles of elevation of the top of the tower from points A, B, C where AB = BC, are 30o, 15o and
60o respectively. Find the angle BAC.

10. A flag-staff is fixed on the top of a tower standing on a horizontal plane. The angles subtended
by the flag-staff at two points 40m apart, on the same side and on the same horizontal line
through the foot of the tower are the same and equal to 45o. The angle subtended by the tower at
the farthest point is 15o. Find the height of the tower and the length of the flag-staff.

11. A man walks along a straight road and observes that the greatest angle subtended by two objects
is 60o. From the point where this greatest angle is subtended he walks a distance 40 m along the
road, and finds that the two objects are now in a straight line which makes angle 30 o with the
road. Find the distance between the objects.

12. A flag-staff on the top of a tower is observed to subtend the same angle 30o at two points 80 m
apart on a horizontal plane, which lie on the same side of the tower on a line passing through the
centre of the base of the tower and angle 60o at a point half way between them. Find the length of
the flag-staff.
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 Answer:

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1. 17.32 m, 10m, 2. 73 m 3. 26 m 4 16.55 m 5. 150m 6. . 7
2

7.
5 3 + 15 11 5 + 5 33
4
,
4
8. h = R =
60
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 19.09 m 8. cos−1
4−2 3 
3 
 (
10. 20, 40 3 + 1 )
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11. 60 - 20 3  26 m 12. 40m.

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