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Geometry Problems for Students

This document contains 13 short-answer geometry questions involving right triangles, trigonometric ratios, and measurements of angles of elevation and depression. The questions require using trigonometric ratios like sine, cosine, and tangent to calculate missing lengths and distances in various right triangles defined in each question.

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Geometry Problems for Students

This document contains 13 short-answer geometry questions involving right triangles, trigonometric ratios, and measurements of angles of elevation and depression. The questions require using trigonometric ratios like sine, cosine, and tangent to calculate missing lengths and distances in various right triangles defined in each question.

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Measurement and Geometry 195

10 The value of θ in the diagram, correct to two decimal places, is:


12
A 0.73° B 48.19° C 41.81°
D 33.69° E 4.181° θ
8

Short-answer questions
1 Write down Pythagoras’ theorem for these triangles, using the given pronumerals.
a b t c
z e
x f
s
u
y d
2 Find the length of the hypotenuse in these triangles. Round to two decimal places where
appropriate.
a 8 b 24 c
12
7 c
c 6 c
5
d 35 e c f
2
c 5
12
c 4

3 Find the length of the unknown side in these right-angled triangles. Round to two decimal
places.
a 5 b c 15
11
6 18
8
4 A steel support beam of length 6.5 m is connected to a wall at a height of 4.7 m from the ground.
Find the distance (to two decimal places) between the base of the building and the point where the
beam is joined to the ground.

6.5 m 4.7 m

5 For this double triangle, find the length: C


a AC D
b CD (correct to two decimal places) 5 cm
5 cm
A 12 cm B
196 Chapter 4 Right-angled triangles

6 Two different cafés on opposite sides of an atrium in a shopping centre are respectively 10 m and
15 m above the ground floor. If the cafés are linked by a 20 m escalator, find the horizontal distance
(to the nearest metre) across the atrium, between the two cafés.

7 Find the value of each of the following, correct to two decimal places.
a sin 40° b tan 66° c cos 44°

8 Which ratio (sin θ = O , cos θ = A or tan θ = O ) would be used to find the value of the unknown in
H H A
these triangles?
a 12° b 10 cm c
xm 6
18 m
x cm θ
60°
5
9 Find the value of each pronumeral, correct to two decimal places where necessary.
Use sin θ = O , cos θ = A or tan θ = O .
H H A
a b 10 c
y
26° 42 29°
x 14 x

54°
d e f 2.6
9 11 θ
5 29° θ 1.3
z

10 The angle of elevation of the top of a lighthouse from a point on the


ground 40 m from its base is 35°. Find the height of the lighthouse,
correct to two decimal places.
35°
40 m
11 A train travels up a slope, making an angle of 7° with the horizontal.
When the train is at a height of 3 m above its starting point, find the 3m
7°
distance it has travelled up the slope, to the nearest metre.

12 From a point on the ground, Ahbed measures the angle of elevation of a 120 m tower
to be 34°. How far from the base of the tower is Ahbed, correct to two decimal places?
13 From the roof of a skyscraper, Aisha spots a car at an angle of depression of 51° from the roof of the
skyscraper. If the skyscraper is 78 m high, how far away is the car from the base of the skyscraper,
correct to one decimal place?

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