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9 16 ▶ Calculate the angles a and b of this dry ski slope correct to

1 decimal place.
35 m 18 m
17 ▶ A bell tower is 65 m high. Find the angle of
elevation, to 1 decimal place, of its top from a b
a point 150 m away on horizontal ground.

18 ▶ Ollie is going to walk in the rainforest. He plans to go up a slope along a straight path from
point P to point Q. The hill is 134 m high, and distance PQ on the map is 500 m. Find the
angle of elevation of the hill.

EXERCISE 2* 1▶ ABCD is a rectangle. Find angles a and b to the nearest degree.

A B
9 a
6m
b P

PR 5 21 cm
D 16 m C

2▶ The rhombus PQRS has diagonals 14 cm and 21 cm long. S Q

Find the angle PQR to 3 significant figures.
QS 5 14 cm

Find angle a. R

3▶ 4▶ 4.23 cm
5 ▶ Rectangle
a
5.77 cm a 35.4 cm
a 45° 200 cm
10 cm 17.3 cm 10 cm

6▶ A bank B is 8.6 km north and 12.5 km west of a school S.

Calculate correct to 3 significant figures:
a the bearing of S from B
b the bearing of B from S.

7▶ The grid represents a map on which villages

X, Y and Z are shown. Each side of the grid N
Y
squares represent 5 km.
X
Find, to 1 decimal place, the bearing of:
a Y from X Z
b X from Y 5 km
c Z from X
5 km
d Z from Y.
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10 8▶ A 5 m flagpole is secured by two ropes PQ and PR.
Point R is the mid-point of SQ. Find angle a to 1 decimal place.
a
9▶ In a quadrilateral ABCD, AB = 3 cm, BC = 5.7 cm, CD = 4 cm
5m
and AD = 5 cm. Angle B = angle D = 90°. Calculate the angle
at A to 1 decimal place.

60°
10 ▶ Draw an equilateral triangle and bisect it. S R Q
Prove that the exact values of the
tangent ratios of 30° and 60° are
1
and 3 respectively.
3
1
11 11 ▶ Given that tan 30° = and tan 60° = 3 ,
3
show that the exact value of the height of
60° 30°
the tree in metres is given by 25 3 .
50 m

EXERCISE 3 REVISION

Find angle x. Give your answers correct to 3 significant figures.

9 15 x
1▶ 3▶ 25° 5▶ 35°
x x 6
35°
10

x 60°
2▶ x 4▶ 20° 6▶ x
4
40°
8 12

Find angle a.
11
a a
7▶ 8▶ 9▶ a
6 5
7

10
8

10 ▶ Find the area of the isosceles triangle ABC, given that tan 30° = 0.577.
A

30°
B C
6 cm

11 ▶ Calculate the angle between the longest side and the diagonal of
a 577 mm by 1000 mm rectangle.
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EXERCISE 3* REVISION

Give your answers to 3 significant figures.

9
1▶ The angle of elevation to the top of the CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) from a point on the
ground 50 m away from the tower is 84.8°. Find the height of the CN Tower.
10
2▶ A harbour H is 25 km due (directly) north of an airport A. A town T is 50 km due east of H.

a Calculate the bearing of T from A.

b Calculate the bearing of A from T.

3▶ The diagram shows the lines of sight of a car driver.

(Not to scale)
37°
1.4 m

D 0.85 m

a Calculate the driver’s ‘blind’ distance D in metres.

b Why is this distance important in the car design?

4▶ Show that the area of an equilateral triangle of side 2x is x 2 3 , given that tan 60° = 3.

5▶ A lighthouse is 25 m high. From the top of the lighthouse, the angles of depression
1
of two buoys due (directly) north of it are 45° and 30°. Given than tan 30° = ,
3
show that the distance x, in metres, between the buoys is 25 3 1 .( )

30°
45°

25 m