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Gr 10 Date: Time: 1 HR
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Trigonometry
Topic Special Angles

1. GOT IT! [15 MIN]

For most angles we need to use a calculator to calculate a 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠, 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 𝑜𝑜𝑜𝑜 𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡 angle, but in Trigonometry
there are angles that we can calculate exactly. These angles are called special angles.

𝑜𝑜 √3
𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 60° = =
ℎ 2
2
𝑜𝑜 𝑎𝑎 1
√3 ℎ 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 60° = =
ℎ 2
𝑜𝑜 √3
𝑎𝑎 60° 𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡 60° = = = √3
1 𝑎𝑎 1

30° 𝑜𝑜 1
2 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 30° = =
ℎ 2
𝑎𝑎 ℎ
√3 𝑎𝑎 √3
𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 30° = =
𝑜𝑜 ℎ 2
𝑜𝑜 1
1 𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡 30° = =
𝑎𝑎 √3

𝑜𝑜 1
𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠 45° = =
ℎ √2
1 ℎ √2
𝑜𝑜
𝑎𝑎 1
𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 45° = =
ℎ √2
𝑎𝑎 45°
𝑜𝑜 1
1 𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡 45° = = =1
𝑎𝑎 1
2. GO AHEAD [30 MIN]
Determine the following without making use of calculator:

2.1 sin 60 ° + cos 30 ° 2.2 𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇 45° − 2𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 60°

2.3 𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇 60° × sin 30° 2.4 𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠𝑠2 45° + 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 2 45

2.5 cos 45° × cos 30° 2.6 3 sin 30° − 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 2 60°

2.7 sin 45° + √3 tan 60° 2.8 cos 30° − sin 90°

2.9 tan 45° + 2 sin 60° − tan 60° 2.10 𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐𝑐 2 60 + tan 60°

3. CHECK YOUR WORK! [10 MIN]

4. HELPFUL VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiBdwuPacM