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Curriculum Aligned Competency Based Test Items
Mathematics
Class 10 – Chapter 9
Some applications of Trigonometry
At a toll plaza, an electronic toll collection system has been installed. FASTag can be used to pay the
fare. The tag can be pasted on the windscreen of a car.
At the toll plaza a tag scanner is placed at a height of 6 m from the ground. The scanner reads the
information on the tag of the vehicle and debits the desired toll amount from a linked bank
account.
For the tag scanner to function properly the speed of a car needs to be less than 30 km per hour. A
car with a tag installed at a height of 1.5 m from the ground enters the scanner zone.
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Curriculum Aligned Competency Based Test Items Mathematics
Class 10 − Chapter 9
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1 The scanner gets activated when the car’s tag is at a distance of 5 m from it.
Give one trigonometric ratio for the angle between the horizontal and the line between the car tag and
the scanner?
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2 The scanner reads the complete information on the car’s tag while the angle between chip and scanner
changes from 30° to 60° due to car movement.
What is the distance moved by the car?
A. √3 m
B. 3√3 m
C. 4.5 m
D. 4.5√3 m
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3 A vehicle with a tag pasted at a height of 2 m from the ground stops in the scanner zone. The scanner
reads the data at an angle of 45°.
What is the distance between the tag and the scanner?
A. 2m
B. 4m
C. 4√2 m
D. 8m
At the toll plaza, a traf ic monitoring camera is also installed at a height of 6.2 m. It takes pictures of
moving vehicles at regular intervals.
The diagram below shows the position of the camera and a car moving away from it after paying
the toll in four instances. The speed of the car is 5 m/s.
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4 The angle made by the camera to the car in instance 1 is 30° and changes to 60°in instance 4.
What is the distance moved by the car? (√3 = 1.73)
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5 Seaweed is found under an 80 m deep sea loor. To reach it a diver makes a 45° dive from a boat.
What is the distance travelled by the diver to reach the sea loor?
A. 80 m
B. 80.2 m
C. 80√2 m
D. 80√3 m
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6 By the time the diver collected seaweed, the boat shifted 20 m on the opposite side. The diver now has
to rise at an angle of 60° to reach the boat.
What is the distance the diver travels to reach the boat?
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Two persons are watching a game in a stadium. The distance between them is 1.5 m.
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7 What is the distance of the second person from the player?
A. 10 m
B. 12 m
C. 13.5 m
D. 14.5 m
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8 A 9 m high street-light pole is broken during a storm. The top end of the pole touches the ground at 30°.
At what height did the pole break?
A. 3m
B. 3.75 m
C. 4.5 m
D. 9m
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Class 10 − Chapter 9
A triangle is drawn inside a square of side length 6 cm as shown in igure given below.
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9 What is the area of the shaded region?
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In the igure given below, PQU is a right triangle with ∠PQU = 90°.
ST is parallel to RQ, PS = RQ and ST = RU. Calculate the length of SR.
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10 What is the length of SR?
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