Trigonometry and Area Problems

Warm Up, March 31

1. Express the following trigonometric functions as ratios of the sides of the triangle:

sin

cos

tan

2. What is the length of side a, in terms of and c?

3. What is the length of side b, in terms of and c? 4. What is the area of this triangle, in terms of and c?

Group Practice: Work together!

Find the area of the outlined rectangle.

A little tougher

Find the area of the outlined rectangle Before beginning: This problem is more complicated. Outline steps for an organized plan of attack:

What is the formula for area of a rectangle? Find length: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions, that is equal to the length of this rectangle? Find width: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions that is equal to the width of this rectangle?REMINDER: how did we approach the rocket launch problem on Friday?

A little tougher

Find the area of the outlined rectangle Before beginning: This problem is more complicated. Outline steps for an organized plan of attack:

What is the formula for area of a rectangle? Find length: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions, that is equal to the length of this rectangle? Find width: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions that is equal to the width of this rectangle?REMINDER: how did we approach the rocket launch problem on Friday?

Warm Up, April 1

Skills Refresher:

Find the measure of every unknown angle in the diagrams to the right. Without a calculator, find the sine and cosine of 60 and 45

More Group Work with Areas

Find the area of the outlined triangle. Make sure to plan first!

What is the formula for area of a triangle?

Identify b and h of this triangle.

Find height: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions, that is equal to the height of this triangle?

Find base: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions, that is equal to the base of this triangle?
CAREFUL! Do we know the hypotenuse of triangle ? What side lengths of triangle do we know?

More Group Work with Areas

Find the area of the outlined triangle. Make sure to plan first!

What is the formula for area of a triangle?

Identify b and h of this triangle.

Find height: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions, that is equal to the height of this triangle?

Find base: Is there any segment in the diagram that we can express using trigonometric functions, that is equal to the base of this triangle?
CAREFUL! Do we know the hypotenuse of triangle ? What side lengths of triangle do we know?

One more, with lots of pieces

1. Find the length of the orange and yellow line segments, in terms of and HINT: Use the indicated angle. Can we state it in terms of and/or ? Think back to your warmup!

Now for the rest of the triangles

Label the sides of triangle

(Think along the same lines as yesterdays problems)

Now for the rest of the triangles

Use this new information to label the sides of triangle

(Think along the same lines as todays first problem)

Now for the rest of the triangles

Finally, we can also use triangle s solution to solve the green triangle, BUT were missing an angle measure! Try to find the measure of the lower right angle of the triangle
(HINT: Think back to the other exercises of our warmup)

Now for the rest of the triangles

The indicated angle is equal to angle . (Why?) Now we can finish labeling the segments

Now for the rest of the triangles

Now that every segment is labeled, we can make some comparisons using the sides of the rectangles

Using these formulas and the final piece of your warm up, find the sin and cos of 105 by hand. Check your answer on your calculator when you are finished.