Department of Education

Region IX
Division of Zamboanga Sibugay
Palomoc National High School

FOURTH PERIODICAL TEST IN MATH 9

Name: _____________________ Grade/Section: ___________ Date:________

Score:_______

Direction: Read carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer.
___1. Which of the following correctly defines the sine ratio?
A. Adjacent side / Hypotenuse C. Hypotenuse / Opposite side
B. Opposite side / Hypotenuse D. Adjacent side / Opposite side
___2. What is the correct expression for the tangent of an angle in a right triangle?
A. Opposite side / Adjacent side C. Hypotenuse / Opposite side
B. Adjacent side / Hypotenuse D. Adjacent side / Opposite side
For item # 3

Jessa is building a wooden ladder to reach the roof of their bahay kubo. The ladder leans
against the house, forming a right triangle with the ground.
___3. Which trigonometric ratio should she use to find the height of the house if she knows the
ladder’s length and its angle with the ground?
A. Sine B. Cosine C. Secant D. Cotangent
For item # 4

A flagpole casts a shadow on the ground. If the length of the shadow and the height of the
flagpole form a right triangle with the hypotenuse as the pole’s length.
___4. Which trigonometric ratio can be used to find the shadow’s length?
A. Cotangent B. Sine C. Cosine D. Tangent
___5. What is the sine of 30°?
A. 1 B. 1/2 C. √3/2 D. 2
For item # 6

A boy flying a kite sees it at an angle of 45° from where he is standing.

If the string is perfectly straight and forms a right triangle with the ground.
___6. Which trigonometric ratio can he use to find the height of the kite?
A. Tangent B. Secant C. Cosecant D. Cotangent
For item # 7

A carpenter is making a wooden support beam at a 45° angle for a bahay kubo’s roof.
If he wants to find the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
___7. Which trigonometric function should he use?
A. Tangent B. Sine C. Cosine D. Secant
___8. Which of the following could be the angle’s measure, if the cotangent of an angle is 1?
A. 0° B. 60° C. 90° D. 45°
___9. What is angle formed if a pilot in an airplane sees a boat below at a 35° angle?
A. Angle of elevation C. Angle of depression
 B. Right angle D. Acute angle
For item # 10

A person standing at the top of a coconut tree looks down at a child playing on the ground.
___10. Which angle is formed between the observer’s line of sight and the horizontal?
A. Angle of depression C. Right angle
B. Angle of elevation D. Supplementary angle
For item # 11

A hiker at the top of a hill looks down at a campsite at a 20° angle.

If another hiker at the campsite looks up to the same hilltop.
___11. What is the angle of elevation?
A. 10° B. 70° C. 90° D. 20°
___12. Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between the angle of
elevation and the angle of depression?
A. They are always complementary
B. The angle of depression is always greater
C. They are always equal
D. The angle of elevation is always greater
For item # 13

A lifeguard at a watchtower sees a swimmer in distress at a 15° angle below his line of
sight.
___13. What is his angle of elevation, if the swimmer looks up at the lifeguard?
A. 15° B. 30° C. 45° D. 60°
___14. What is the term for the angle if a boy flying a kite sees it at a 40° angle above his line
of sight?
A. Angle of depression C. Complementary angle
B. Angle of elevation D. Right angle
___15. Which of the following real-life scenarios best illustrates an angle of depression?
A. A person looking up at a tall building
B. A student raising his hand in class
C. A bird looking down at a fish in a pond
D. A lighthouse shining light upward
For item # 16

A streetlight is 8 meters tall. The angle of elevation from a child’s eye level to the top
of the streetlight is 60°.
___16. What trigonometric ratio can be used to find the distance between the child and the
base of the streetlight?
A. Sine B. Cosine C. Tangent D. Secant
For item # 17

A kite is flying at an angle of elevation of 45°. If the string is 50 meters long.

___17. Which trigonometric function can be used to find the height of the kite?
A. Sine B. Cosine C. Tangent D. Secant
For item # 18

A fisherman spots an island at a 30° angle of elevation. If the boat is 200 meters
from the island’s base.
___18. What function can be used to find the island’s height?
A. Tangent B. Sine C. Cosine D. Cosecant
For item # 19

A rescue worker in a helicopter sees a person on a rooftop at a 25° angle of depression.

If the helicopter is flying at a height of 100 meters.
___19.What trigonometric ratio can be used to find the horizontal distance from the helicopter
to
the person?
A. Tangent B. Cosine C. Secant D. Cotangent
For item # 20

A zipline is installed between two trees. The starting platform is 10 meters above
the ground, and the angle of elevation from the lower end to the higher end is 35°.
___20.Which trigonometric function helps find the length of the zipline?
A. Sine B. Cosine C. Tangent D. Cosecant
___21. Which law should be used to find side b in triangle ABC, if angle A = 40°, angle B = 60°,
and side a = 10 cm?
A. Law of Sines C. Pythagorean Theorem
B. Law of Cosines D. Tangent Rule
For item # 22

A hiker is trying to measure the distance across a river.

He stands at one point and measures angles of 50° and 70° from two known points.
___22. What method can he use to find the distance?
A. Law of Sines C. Pythagorean Theorem
B. Law of Cosines D. SOH-CAH-TOA
___23. Which formula represents the Law of Sines?

a b C
A. = =
sin A sin B sin C
B. 𝑎2+𝑏2=𝑐2

C. cos 𝐶 =
a 2+b 2 −c 2
2 ab

D. tan 𝐴 =
opposite
adjacent
For item # 24

A surveyor is measuring the distance between two points on a mountain.

If he knows two sides and the included angle.
___24. Which law should be used?
A. Law of Sines C. Pythagorean Theorem
B. Law of Cosines D. Law of Tangents
___25. The Law of Cosines is derived from which theorem?
A. Pythagorean Theorem C. Triangle Midpoint Theorem
B. Law of Sines D. Law of Tangents
___26. Which of the following conditions is best solved using the Law of Sines?
A. Given all three sides of a triangle
B. Given two sides and the included angle
C. Given no angles
D. Given two angles and one side
For item # 27

A ship is 50 km east of a lighthouse, and another ship is 70 km south of the same

lighthouse.
The angle between the two ships as seen from the lighthouse is 40°.
___27. What formula can be used to find the distance between the two ships?
A. Law of Sines
B. Law of Cosines
C. Pythagorean Theorem
D. SOH-CAH-TOA
___28. What method should be used to determine the largest angle in a triangular lot has a
sides of 30m, 40m, and 50m?
A. Law of Sines
B. Pythagorean Theorem
C. Law of Cosines
D. Heron’s Formula
For item # 29

A surveyor needs to measure the distance across a lake.

He stands at two points and records angles of 35° and 50°.
___29. What law should be used to find the unknown length?
A. Law of Sines
B. Law of Cosines
C. Pythagorean Theorem
D. Law of Tangents
___30. What is the shortest distance back to the starting point if a cyclist travels 8 km east,
then 6 km north?
A. Law of Sines
B. Law of Cosines
C. Pythagorean Theorem
D. Law of Tangents
 TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS
FOURTH PERIODICA TEST IN MATH 9

Perce No. Item Placement Under Each Cognitive Domains

Learning Competencies ntage of Reme Underst Apply Analy Evalua Crea
Ite mberin anding ing zing ting ting
ms g
1 "Illustrates the six 13.33 4 1 2 3
trigonometric ratios: % 4
sine, cosine, tangent,
secant, cosecant, and
cotangent."
2 Finds the 13.33 4 5 6 7 8
trigonometric ratios of %
special angles.
3 Illustrates angles of 23.34 7 9 10 12 15
elevation and angles % 14 11
of depression. 13
4 "Uses trigonometric 16.67 5 16
ratios to solve real-life % 17
problems involving 18
right triangles." 19
20
5 Illustrates laws of sines 20.00 6 23 25 21 24
and cosines. % 26 22
6 Solves problems 13.33 4 27
involving oblique % 28
triangles. 29
30
TOTAL 100% 30

Prepared by:

MARZEN S. ALAVAREN
Teacher III

Contents Checked: Contents Noted:

MA. EDENIA P. MADARANG JAIME P. GENEROSO

Head Teacher I Principal III
KEY:

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. D
9. C
10. A
11. D
12. C
13. A
14. B
15. C
16. C
17. A
18. A
19. A
20. A
21. A
22. A
23. A
24. B
25. A
26. B
27. B
28. C
29. A
30. C