CHAPTER 4 REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. In what situations would you use the sine law?

2. In what situations would you use the cosine law?

3. Solve for the unknown side or angle.

a) b)

B C

72° ?
? 20 cm

56°
A C
16 cm A 13 cm B

c) d)
N
R
10 cm 13 cm ?
19 cm

?
M P
62°
11 cm P Q
18 cm

4. A loading ramp is designed so that it makes an angle of 12 ° with the ground.

The base of the ramp is 4.2 m long. How long is the surface of the ramp?

5. A sailor wants to anchor his sailboat 40 m from a lighthouse that is 15 m tall.

Determine the angle of elevation from the sailboat to the top of the
lighthouse.
6. Two buildings are 25 m apart. From the top of the shorter building, the
angles of elevation and depression of the top and bottom of the taller
building are 31° and 48° respectively. What is the height of the taller
building?

7. Two boats depart from the same dock in a marina. A sailboat sails at 9 km/h
in a direction of 12° west of north. At the same time, a power boat travels at
15 km/h in a direction of 16° east of north. How far apart are the boats after
3 hours?

8. A salvage vessel locates a sunken ship below the water’s surface. It

determines that the angle of depression to one end of the ship is 57.2° and
to the other end is 73.1°. If the length of the ship is 167 ft, determine how
far below the water’s surface it is.