TRIGONOMETRY

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1. How many degrees, minutes and seconds are respectively passed over in 11 minutes by
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the hour and minute hands of a watch?
2. The wheel of a railway carriage is 3 feet in diameter and makes 3 revolutions in a second;
how fast is the train going (in miles per hour)?
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3. The radius of a carriage wheel is 1 feet 9 inches, and it turns through 80 in th of a
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second; how many miles does the wheel travel in one hour?
4. Express in degrees, minutes and seconds the angles:
c 4 c
(i) (ii) (iii) 10 c (iv) 1c (v) 8c
3 3
5. The angles of a triangle are in A.P. and the number of degrees in the least is to the number
of radians in the greatest as 60 to  ; find all the angles in degrees.
6. Find the magnitude, in radians and degrees of the interior angle of
(i) a regular pentagon (ii) a regular heptagon (iii) a regular octagon
(iv) a regular duodecagon (v) a regular polygon of 17 sides.
7. The angle in one regular polygon is to that in another as 3: 2; also the number of sides in
the first is twice that in the second; how many sides do the polygons have?
8. The value of the divisions on the outer rim of a graduated circle is 5 and the distance
between successive graduations is 0.1 inch. Find the radius of the circle.
9. Taking the radius of the earth as 4000 miles, find the difference in latitude of two places,
one of which is 100 miles north of the other.
10. The perimeter of a certain sector of a circle is equal to the length of the arc of a semicircle
having the same radius; express the angle of the sector in degrees, minutes and seconds.

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11. Find approximately the distance of a tower whose height is 51 feet and which subtends at

5
the eye an angle of 5 .
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12. When the moon is setting at any given place, the angle that is subtended at its center by the

radius of the earth passing through the given place is 57 . If the earth’s radius be 3960
miles, find approximately the distance of the moon.
13. Prove that:

 1 1  2 1  cos 2  sin 2 
  cos  sin  
2
(i) 
 sec   cos  cosec   sin   2  cos 2  sin 2 
2 2 2 2

tan A  sec A  1 1  sin A

(ii) 
tan A  sec A  1 cos A
m 2  2mn m 2  2mn
14. If sin   2 , prove that tan   .
m  2mn  2 n 2 2mn  2n 2
4 xy
15. Show that the equation sec2   is only possible when x  y .
x  y
2

sec 4  tan 4  1
16. If   , then prove that b  a .
a b ab
17. (i) If cos   sin   2 sin  , prove that cos   sin   2 cos 
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(ii) Prove that the equation sin   x  is impossible if x is real
x
 
18. Exhaustive set of values of x satisfying cos 3x  sin 3 x  cos3 x  sin 3 x in  0,  is
 3
   
(a)  0,  (b)  0, 
 6  2
           
(c)  0,    ,  (d)  0,    , 
 2  6 3   2  4 3 
19. (i) If sin 2   x 2  3x  3 is meaningful, then find the values of x .
bc  ca  ab
(ii) If a, b, c  R, then prove that sec2   only if a  b  c .
a 2  b2  c 2

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 20. Find the values of p so that the equation 2 cos 2 x   p  3 cos x  2  p  1  0 has a real

solution.

ANSWER KEY

(1) 53320 ; 66 40 (2)  19.28 miles per hour (3)  14.994 miles per hour

(4) (i) 60 (ii) 240 (iii) 1800 (iv) 571744.8 (v) 458 21 58.4

(5) 30 , 60 ,90

 
3 5 4 3 5 15 14
(6) (i) ;108 (ii) ;128 (iii) ;135 (iv) ;150 (v) ;158
5 7 7 4 6 7 17

(7) 8 and 4 (8)  68.75 inches (9)  1 2557 (10) 65 2430.4

(11)  32142.9 feet (12) 478  1011 miles

(18) (c) (19) (i) 1, 2 (20) p   1,3

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