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Right Triangle Exam

Honors Geometry
(all problems have equal point value)

Solve the following. Show your work to receive any credit. Justify all geometric steps. Provide an
accurate sketch (if needed).

1. Given: BA = 8, m∠CDE = 105° and m∠BAE = 150°. Find the perimeter of ABCDE.

2. You are flying a kite and have let out 100 m of string. The kite’s angle of elevation with the ground
is 60°. If the string is stretched out straight, how high is the kite above the ground? (Leave your
answer simplest radical form.)
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3. In the Oscar winning documentary Free Solo, Alex Honnold is determined to climb El Capitan in
Yosemite National Park (3000 vertical feet from base to summit) without a rope. At one point a
photographer is 27 feet from the base of El Capitan, and she looks up to Alex with an angle of
elevation of 19°. How high up is Alex at this point? (Write and solve a trigonometric equation to
solve for requested values. Leave your answer calculator ready)

4. Lamar is on top of a 18-meter vertical cliff, AB. He knows that it is 14.1 meters from the bottom of
the cliff to the near bank of a river and that the angle of depression from his location to the near
bank is 52°. The angle of depression to the far bank of the river is 38°. Describe how Lamar can
find the width of the river, CD. (Leave your answer calculator ready.

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5. Use the triangle below to write three different trigonometric equations you can use to find the
unknown side length x. (You do not have to solve the three equations.)
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6. An equilateral triangle has an altitude of 10√3. Find the perimeter of the triangle.

7. In the rhombus given, m∠A = 60°. Find the length of AB.

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8. The side lengths of a triangle are 5, 10, and x, with 10 being is the length of the longest side.
What is the range of values of x (maximum and minimum) that make the triangle:

a. A right triangle?
b. An acute triangle?
c. An obtuse triangle?