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MULTIPLE CHOICE: Choose the correct answer from the choices given
and encircle the letter of your correct answer.
1. Which trigonometric function represents the ratio of the

opposite side to the adjacent side in a right triangle?
A. Sine (sin) C. Tangent (tan)
B. Cosine (cos) D. Secant (sec)
2. In a right triangle, if the adjacent side is 5 units and the

hypotenuse is 13 units, what is the value of the cosine of the
angle?
A. 5/13 C. 5/12
B. 13/5 D. 12/5
3. In a right triangle, if the angle θ is acute, which

trigonometric function represents the ratio of the length of the
side opposite to θ to the length of the hypotenuse?
4. If the ratio of the lengths of the hypotenuse to the opposite

side in a right triangle is given, which trigonometric function
would be used to find the measure of one of the acute angles?
A. Sine (sin) C. Secant (sec)
B. Cosine (cos) D. Cosecant (csc)
5. In a right triangle, if an observer is looking up at an object

above them, which term describes the angle formed between the
observer's line of sight and the horizontal ground?
A. Angle of Inclination C. Angle of Elevation
B. Angle of Declination D. Angle of Depression
6. If a person standing on a cliff is looking down at a boat on

the water, what type of angle is formed between the line of sight
and the horizontal ground?
A. Angle of Inclination C. Angle of Elevation
B. Angle of Declination D. Angle of Depression
7. In a right triangle, if the angle of depression from an

observer to a boat in the water is 30 degrees, what is the
relationship between the observer's line of sight and the
horizontal?
A. The line of sight is perpendicular to the horizontal.
B. The line of sight makes a 30-degree angle with the horizontal.
C. The line of sight is parallel to the horizontal.
D. The line of sight makes a 60-degree angle with the horizontal.
8. Which trigonometric function represents the ratio of the

opposite side to the hypotenuse in a right triangle?
9. What is the reciprocal of the cosine function?

10. Which trigonometric function is equal to the ratio of the

adjacent side to the hypotenuse in a right triangle?
11. A ladder is leaning against a wall, forming a right triangle

with the ground. If the ladder is 12 feet long and makes an angle
of 600 with the ground, what is the height of the ladder on the
wall?
a.6√3feet c.12√3feet
b.6feet d. 12 feet
12. An airplane is flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet. If the

angle of elevation from a ground observer to the airplane is 25
degrees, what is the horizontal distance from the observer to the
airplane?
A. 11,033.78 feet C. 23,662.02 feet
B. 21,445.07 feet D. 24,445.50 feet
13. A 29-ft water slide has a 17-ft vertical ladder. How far is
it along the ground from the end of the slide back to the base of
the ladder that leads to the slide?
A. 28 ft C. 24 ft
B. 25 ft D. 20 ft
14. From a point on the ground 47 feet from the foot of a tree,
the angle of elevation of the top of the tree is 35º. Find the
height of the tree.
A. 26.96 ft C. 38.50 ft
B. 32.91 ft D. 67 ft
15. From point P on the ground, the angle of elevation of an

airplane is 23º. The altitude of the plane is 1200 meters. What
is the distance from point P to the airplane?
A. 509.4 m C. 2827.0 m
B. 1303.6 m D. 3071.2 m
16. A shopper is standing on level ground 800 feet from the base
of a 250-foot-tall department store. The shopper looks up and
sees a flag on the store's roof. What is the angle of elevation
to the top of the building from the point on the ground where the
shopper is standing?
A. 17.35º C. 20.05º
B. 18.21º D. 25.75º
17. A math student is standing 25 feet from the base of the
Washington Monument. The angle of elevation from her horizontal
line of sight is 87.4 degrees. If her “eye height” is 5 ft, how
tall is the monument?
A. 550.54 ft C. 557.54 ft
B. 555.54 ft D. 558.54 ft
18. A 25-foot-tall flagpole casts a 42-foot shadow. What is the

angle that the sun hits the flagpole?
A. 32.560 C. 53.50
0
B. 36.5 B. 63.50
19. Princess is standing on top of a 50-foot building and sees

her friend, Jasmine. If Jasmine is 30 feet away from the base of
the building, what is the angle of depression from Princess to
Jasmine? Princess’s eye height is 4.5 feet.
A. 57.20 C. 61.20
B. 59.50 B. 62.50
20. Mark is flying a kite and realizes that 300 feet of string
are out. The angle of the string with the ground is 42.50. How
high is Mark's kite above the ground?
A. 202.7 ft C. 207.10 ft
B. 204.5 ft D. 210 ft
21. Kristine is swimming in the ocean and notices a coral reef

below her. The angle of depression is 350 and the depth of the
ocean, at that point is 250 feet. How far away is she from the
reef?
A. 371 ft C. 377 ft
B. 374 ft D. 380 ft
22. An airplane is observed to be approaching a point that is at

12 km from the point of observation and makes an angle of
elevation of 50°. Find the height of the airplane above the
ground.
A. 14 km C. 14 km
B. 14.3 km D. 15.3 km
23. A tree that is standing vertically on the level ground casts

the 120-foot-long shadow. The angle of elevation from the end of
the shadow of the top of the tree is 21.4°. Find the height of
the tree?
A. 45 ft C. 49 ft
B. 47 ft D. 50 ft
24. A ladder is leaning against a wall, forming a right triangle

with the ground. If the ladder is 10 meters long and makes an
angle of 30 degrees with the ground, what is the height of the
ladder on the wall?
A. 5.77 meters C. 9.7 meters
B. 7.7 meters D. 10 meters
25. A ship is located 5 kilometers east and 8 kilometers north of
a lighthouse. What is the angle of elevation from the ship to the
top of the lighthouse, considering the horizontal distance?
A. 35.8 degrees C. 53.13 degrees
B. 45.5 degrees D. 60 degrees
26. A flagpole casts a shadow of 15 meters when the angle of

elevation of the sun is 60 degrees. What is the height of the
flagpole?
A. 10 meters C. 7.5 meters
B. 15√3 meters D. 15 meters
27. The angle of elevation from a point on the ground to the top
of a building is 45 degrees. If the building is 20 meters tall,
what is the horizontal distance from the point to the building?
A. 20 meters C. 45 meters
B. 20√2 meters D. 15 meters
28. An observer on the ground sees an airplane at an angle of

elevation of 30 degrees. If the airplane is flying at an altitude
of 10,000 meters, what is the horizontal distance from the
observer to the airplane?
A. 5,000 meters C. 10,000 meters
B. 10,000√3 meters D. 5,000√3 meters
29. The height of a tree is measured at an angle of elevation of

40 degrees. If the distance from the observer to the base of the
tree is 25 meters, what is the height of the tree?
A.15.3meters C.20.1meters
B.18.8meters D. 23.1 meters
30. The angle of depression from the top of a tower to a point on

the ground is 25 degrees. If the tower is 50 meters tall, what is
the horizontal distance from the top of the tower to the point on
the ground?
B. 38.7 meters D. 46.9 meters
31. An observer is standing 100 meters away from the base of a

building. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is 30
degrees. What is the height of the building?
A. 50 meters C. 86.6 meters
32. A ladder is leaning against a wall. The ladder is 15 meters

long, and the angle between the ladder and the ground is 75
degrees. What is the height at which the ladder contacts the
wall?
33. The angle of depression from the top of a cliff to a boat in
the water is 20 degrees. If the cliff is 25 meters high, what is
the vertical distance from the boat to the top of the cliff?
34. The angle of depression from the top of a lighthouse to a

boat in the water is 40 degrees. If the lighthouse is 50 meters
tall, what is the vertical distance from the boat to the top of
the lighthouse?
35. A ladder is leaning against a wall, forming an angle of 60

degrees with the ground. If the ladder is 15 meters long, what is
the height it reaches on the wall?
36. The height of a tower is measured at an angle of elevation of

50 degrees. If the distance from the observer to the base of the
tower is 40 meters, what is the height of the tower?
37. An observer is standing 25 meters away from the base of a

tree. The angle of elevation to the top of the tree is 65
degrees. What is the height of the tree?
38. An observer on the ground measures the angle of elevation to

the top of a tree as 40 degrees. If the observer moves 10 meters
closer to the tree and measures the new angle of elevation as 60
degrees, what is the height of the tree?
39. A ladder is leaning against a building with an angle of

elevation of 30 degrees. If the base of the ladder is 8 meters
away from the building, what is the length of the ladder?
40. From the top of a hill, the angle of elevation to the peak of
another hill is 25 degrees. If the distance between the observer
and the peak is 200 meters, what is the difference in height
between the two hills?
41. An airplane is flying at an altitude of 12,000 meters. If the
angle of elevation from a ground observer is 75 degrees, what is
the horizontal distance between the observer and the airplane?
A. 3215.39 meters C. 6,000.50 meters
B. 4225.58 meters D. 7,065.90 meters
42. A person at the base of a cliff looks up at an angle of

elevation of 50 degrees to the top of the cliff. If the person is
30 meters away from the base of the cliff, what is the height of
the cliff?
A. 22.6 meters C. 30 meters
43. An observer on the top of a building looks down at an angle

of depression of 35 degrees to the base of a smaller building. If
the height of the larger building is 50 meters, what is the
vertical distance between the tops of the two buildings?
44. A pilot in an airplane flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters

looks down at an angle of depression of 20 degrees to the ground
below. What is the horizontal distance between the airplane and a
point directly below it on the ground?
A. 27,474.77 meters C. 29,238.04 meters
B. 10,641.78 meters D. 28,837.77 meters
45. A person on a bridge looks down at a river with an angle of

depression of 45 degrees. If the bridge is 20 meters above the
water, what is the depth of the river at that point?
B. 20 meters D. 30 meters
46. A photographer is standing on a cliff 50 meters above sea

level. He spots a boat on the water below and measures the angle
of depression to be 25 degrees. What is the approximate distance
between the photographer and the boat?
47. An engineer is assessing the depth of a well. Standing beside

the well, he measures the angle of depression to the water
surface as 30 degrees. If the engineer is 5 meters away from the
well, what is the approximate depth of the well?
48. A person on the ground looks up at the top of a skyscraper

with an angle of depression of 60 degrees. If the person is
standing 30 meters away from the base of the skyscraper, what is
the approximate height of the skyscraper?
A. 30 meters B. 60 meters
C. 51.96 meters D. 75.5 meters
49. A hiker on a mountain peak looks down at a valley and

measures the angle of depression to a river below as 50 degrees.
If the height of the mountain peak is 200 meters, what is the
approximate vertical distance between the hiker and the river?
50. What is the correct expansion of cos(a−b)?

A. cos(a)+cos(b)
B. sin(a)+sin(b)
C. cos(a)cos(b)+sin(a)sin(b)
D. cos(a)cos(b)−sin(a)sin(b)

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Name: _________________________________ Date: __________

Prog. /Sec.: _________________ Score: _________

1. Which trigonometric function represents the ratio of the

2. In a right triangle, if the adjacent side is 5 units and the

3. In a right triangle, if the angle θ is acute, which

4. If the ratio of the lengths of the hypotenuse to the opposite

5. In a right triangle, if an observer is looking up at an object

6. If a person standing on a cliff is looking down at a boat on

7. In a right triangle, if the angle of depression from an

8. Which trigonometric function represents the ratio of the

9. What is the reciprocal of the cosine function?

10. Which trigonometric function is equal to the ratio of the

11. A ladder is leaning against a wall, forming a right triangle

12. An airplane is flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet. If the

15. From point P on the ground, the angle of elevation of an

18. A 25-foot-tall flagpole casts a 42-foot shadow. What is the

19. Princess is standing on top of a 50-foot building and sees

21. Kristine is swimming in the ocean and notices a coral reef

22. An airplane is observed to be approaching a point that is at

23. A tree that is standing vertically on the level ground casts

24. A ladder is leaning against a wall, forming a right triangle

26. A flagpole casts a shadow of 15 meters when the angle of

28. An observer on the ground sees an airplane at an angle of

29. The height of a tree is measured at an angle of elevation of

30. The angle of depression from the top of a tower to a point on

31. An observer is standing 100 meters away from the base of a

32. A ladder is leaning against a wall. The ladder is 15 meters

34. The angle of depression from the top of a lighthouse to a

35. A ladder is leaning against a wall, forming an angle of 60

36. The height of a tower is measured at an angle of elevation of

37. An observer is standing 25 meters away from the base of a

38. An observer on the ground measures the angle of elevation to

39. A ladder is leaning against a building with an angle of

42. A person at the base of a cliff looks up at an angle of

43. An observer on the top of a building looks down at an angle

44. A pilot in an airplane flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters

45. A person on a bridge looks down at a river with an angle of

46. A photographer is standing on a cliff 50 meters above sea

47. An engineer is assessing the depth of a well. Standing beside

48. A person on the ground looks up at the top of a skyscraper

49. A hiker on a mountain peak looks down at a valley and

50. What is the correct expansion of cos(a−b)?

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