SOME APPLICATIONS OF TRIGONOMETRY
Matching exercise
Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
A kite is flying at a height of 30 m above the ground. The string attached to the kite is temporarily tied to a point on the ground. The inclination of the string with the ground is 60°. Find the length of the string, assuming that there is no slack in the string.
A vertical pole of 30 m is fixed on a tower. From a point on the level ground, the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the pole is 60° and 45°. Find the height of the tower.
A 1.5 m tall boy is standing at some distance from a 31.5 m tall building. If he walks ’d’ m towards the building the angle of elevation of the top of the building changes from 30° to 60° . Find the length d.
The angles of depression of two objects from the top of a 100 m hill lying to its east are found to be 45° and 30°. Find the distance between the two objects.
Two poles are 25 m and 15 m high and the line joining their tops makes an angle of 45° with the horizontal. The distance between these poles is
20√3 m
15 (√3 + 1)
34.55m
72.3m
9m