TRIGONOMETRY USING THE RATIOS 2017 JCHL Paper 2 Question 8 (a) The diagram below shows two right-angled triangles, ABC and ACD. They have right angles at B and D, respectively. AB = 10, AC = 12, and AD = DC = x, as shown. The angle BAC is marked Y. (i) Use trigonometry to find the size of the angle Y. Give your answer correct to one decimal place. (ii) Find the value of x. Give your answer correct to two decimal places. 2017 JCHL Paper 2 Question 12 (a) The diagram on the right shows a right-angled triangle with a hypotenuse of length 10 units. (i) Use trigonometry to find the length of the side marked x. Give your answer in surd form. The diagram below shows a regular hexagon with sides of length 10 units. The hexagon is divided into 6 equilateral triangles. (ii) Work out the area of this hexagon. Give your answer in the form a 3, where a N. 2016 JCHL Paper 2 Question 4 (c) Use trigonometry to find the measure of the angle ABC. Give your answer in degrees, correct to two decimal places.
2016 JCHL Paper 2 Question 8 (a) (i) (ii) Write 2 43 5 in degrees in decimal form, correct to two decimal places. Write 3 14 in DMS (i.e. degrees, minutes, and seconds). 2016 JCHL Paper 2 Question 8 (b) The diagram shows a right-angled triangle, with the angle A marked. Given that cos A = sin A, show that this triangle must be isosceles. 2016 JCHL Paper 2 Question 8 (c) A right-angled triangle has sides of length 7 cm, 24 cm, and 25 cm. Find the size of the smallest angle in this triangle. Give your answer correct to one decimal place. 2016 JCHL Paper 2 Question 12 (b) (i) A different triangular-based prism has the base shown in the diagram on the right. Use trigonometry to find the length of the side marked x cm. Give your answer correct to two decimal places. 2015 JCHL Paper 2 Question 8 (b) ST = 10 and RS = 30. Using this information, and trigonometry, find the size of X. Give your answer in degrees, correct to one decimal place.
2015 JCHL Paper 2 Question 13 (a) Miriam is trying to find the volume of the water tank shown in the photograph on the right. She takes some measurements and draws a diagram. Part of her diagram is shown below. a) Using the diagram, find the value of x. Give your answer in metres, correct to two decimal places. The angle of elevation to the bottom of the water tank is 30, as shown in the diagram. The angle of elevation to the top of the water tank is 38. b) Find the distance marked h on the photograph. Give your answer correct to one decimal place. 2014 JCHL Paper 2 Question 6 (i) Construct a right angled triangle ABC, where: AB = 6 cm ABC = 90 AC = 10 cm. (ii) On your diagram, measure the angle CAB. Give your answer correct to the nearest degree. Let X be the whole number you wrote as your answer to (ii). (iii) Use a calculator to find cos X. Give your answer correct to 3 decimal places. (iv) Jacinta says that cos ( CAB) is exactly 0.6, because cos( CAB) = adjacent hypotenuse Explain why your answer in (iii) is not the same as Jacinta s.
2014 JCHL Paper 2 Question 7 (v) Madison draws the scale diagram of the triangle OAB shown on the right. She marks in the angle X. Recall that [AB] is a metal bar, which is part of the frame of the swing. Write down the value of tan X, and hence find the size of the angle X. Give the size of the angle X correct to two decimal places. 2014 JCHL Paper 2 Question 7 (vi) In order to increase the height of the swing, it is decided to increase X by 20%. The distance AB will be kept the same. Find the new height of the swing. Give your answer in metres, correct to one decimal place. 2014 JCHL Paper 2 Question 7 (vi) During a trigonometry lesson a group of students wrote down some statements about what they expected to happen when they looked at the values of trigonometric functions of some angles. Here are some of the things they wrote down. (i) The value from any of these trigonometric functions will always be less than 1. (ii) If the size of the angle is doubled then the value from the trigonometric functions will not double. (iii) The value from all of the trigonometric functions will increase if the size of the angle is (iv) increased. I do not need to use a calculator to find sin 60. I can do it by drawing an equilateral triangle. The answer will be in surd form. They then found the sin, cos and tan of some angles, correct to three decimal places, to test their ideas. a) Do you think that (i) is correct? Give an example to justify your answer. b) Do you think that (ii) is correct? Give an example to justify your answer. c) Do you think that (iii) is correct? Give an example to justify your answer. d) Show how an equilateral triangle of side 2 cm can be used to find sin 60 in surd form.
2014 Sample JCHL Paper 2 Question 16 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 55.863 m tall and leans 3.9 m from the perpendicular, as shown below. The tower of the Suurhusen Church in north-western Germany is 27.37 m tall and leans 2.47 m from the perpendicular. By providing diagrams and suitable calculations and explanations, decide which tower should enter the Guinness Book of Records as the Most Tilted Tower in the World. 2014 Sample JCHL Paper 2 Question 17 In the right-angled triangle shown in the diagram, one of the acute angles is four times as large as the other acute angle. (i) Find the measures of the two acute angles in the triangle. The triangle in part (i) is placed on a co-ordinate diagram. The base is parallel to the x-axis. (ii) Find the slope of the line l that contains the hypotenuse of the triangle. Give your answer correct to three decimal places.
2014 Sample JCHL Paper 2 Question 16 In the triangle ABC, AB = 2 and BC = 1. a) Find AC, giving your answer in surd form. b) Write cos BAC and hence find BAC. c) Sketch a right angled isosceles triangle in which the equal sides are 1 unit each and use it to write cos 45 in surd form. d) Show that cos 75 cos 45 + cos 30. 2013 JCHL Paper 2 Question 13 A tree 32 m high casts a shadow 63 m long. Calculate θ, the angle of elevation of the sun. Give your answer in degrees and minutes (correct to the nearest minute). 2012 JCHL Paper 2 Question 12 A homeowner wishes to replace the three identical steps leading to her front door with a ramp. Each step is 10 cm high and 35 cm long. Find the length of the ramp. Give your answer correct to one decimal place.
2012 JCHL Paper 2 Question 13 (a) Two vertical poles A and B, each of height h, are standing on opposite sides of a level road. They are 24 m apart. The point P, on the road directly between the two poles, is a distance x from pole A. The angle of elevation from P to the top of pole A is 60. a) Write h in terms of x. b) From P the angle of elevation to the top of pole B is 30. Find h, the height of the two poles. 2011 JCHL Paper 2 Question 15 (a) A group of students wish to calculate the height of the Millennium Spire in Dublin. The spire stands on flat level ground. Maria, who is 1.72 m tall, looks up at the top of the spire using a clinometer and records an angle of elevation of 60. Her feet are 70 m from the base of the spire. Ultan measures the circumference of the base of the spire as 7.07 m. a) Explain how Ultan s measurement will be used in the calculation of the height of the Spire. b) Draw a suitable diagram and calculate the height of the spire, to the nearest metre, using measurements obtained by the students.