TAPASYA ACADEMY

CBSE CLASS X
MATHS ASSIGNMENT
APPLICATIONS OF TRIGONOMETRY
1) From the top of a cliff 50 m high, the angles of depression of the top and bottom
of a tower are observed to be 30 and 45 . Find the height of the tower.

3
50 1
m
3

2) B is a point on the segment joining the feet of two vertical poles of heights a and
b. Angles of elevation of the tops of poles from B are 45 each. Find the
2 a2 b2

distance between the tops of poles.

3) AB is a vertical pole with B at the ground level and A at the top. A man finds
that the angle of elevation of the point A from a certain point C on the ground is
60 . He moves away from the pole along line BC to a point D so that CD 7 m .
From D the angle of elevation of the point A is 45 . Find the height of the pole.

7 3 3 1

4) A house subtends a right angle at the window of an opposite house and the
angle of elevation of the window from the bottom of the first house is 60 . If the
distance between the two houses be 6 m, then find the height of the first house.
8 3 m

5) From the top of a hill h metres high, the angles of depressions of the top and the
bottom of a pillar are and respectively. Find the height of the pillar
(in metres).

h tan tan

tan

6) A flagpole of height 50 ft stands on a building of height 450 ft. Angle of

elevation of bottom of the flagpole, from a point 300 ft from the base of the
building on level ground is 30 . If is the angle of elevation of the top of the
flagpole, then find tan .

4 3

7) The elevation of an object on a hill is observed from a point in the horizontal

plane through its base, to be 30 . After walking 120 m towards it on level
ground the elevation changes to 60 . Find the height of the object.

60 3 m

8) From an airplane flying, vertically above a horizontal road, the angles of

depression of two consecutive stones on the same side of the airplane are
observed to be 30 and 60 respectively. Find the height at which the airplane
is flying (in km).

3

2

9) The base of a cliff is circular. From the extremities of a diameter of the base,
angles of elevation of the top of the cliff are 30 and 60 . If the cliff is 500 m tall,
2000
m

find the diameter its base.

10) The shadow of tower standing on a level ground is x metres long when the
suns altitude is 30 , while it is y metres long when the altitude is 60 . If the
tower is

45 3
m tall, evaluate x y .
2

[45 m]

11) The angle of elevation of top of a tower from a point on the ground is 30 and it
is 60 from a point located 40 m away from the initial point towards the tower.
20 3 m

Find the height of the tower.

12) The horizontal distance between two towers is 60 m and the angle of depression
of the top of the first tower as seen from the top of the second is 30 . If the
height of the second tower be 150 m, then find the height of the first tower.

150 20 3 m

13) Angle of elevation of an object from a point on the level ground is . After
moving d units on the ground towards the object, the angle of elevation is .
Find the height of the object.

d
cot cot units

14) A house of height 100 m subtends a right angle at the window of an opposite
house. If the height of the window is 64 m, then find the distance between two
houses.
[48 m]
15) On one bank of river there is a tree. On another bank, an observer makes an
angle of elevation of 60 at the top of the tree. The angle of elevation of the top
of the tree at a distance 20 m away from the bank is 30 . Find the width of the
river.
[10 m]
16) The flag is standing vertically on a tower of height b. On a point at a distance a
from the foot of the tower, the flag and the tower subtend equal angles. Find
the height of the flag.

a 2 b2
b. a 2 b 2

17) A tower subtends an angle at a point A in the plane of its base and the angle
of depression of the foot of the tower at a point b feet just above A is . Find
the height of the tower.

b tan cot

18) Two pillars of equal height stand on either side of a road-way which is 60 m
wide. At a point in the road-way between the pillars, the angles of elevation of
the top of pillars are 60 and 30 . Find the height of the pillars.

15 3 m

19) The shadow of a tower is found to be 60 m shorter when the suns altitude
changes from 30 to 60 . Find the height of the tower from the ground
(give approximate value).
[52 m]

20) ABCD is a rectangular field. A vertical lamp post of height 12 m stands at the
corner A. If the angle of elevation of its top from B is 60 and from C is 45 ,
48 2 m 2

then find the area of the field.

21) A tower of x metres high has a flagstaff at its top. The tower and the flagstaff
subtend equal angles at a point y metres distant from the foot of the tower.
x y 2 x2
2

2
y x

Find the length of the flagstaff (in meters).

22) A person standing on the bank of a river, observes that the angle of elevation of
the top of a tree on the opposite bank of the river as 60 and when he retreats
40 m away from the tree the angle of elevation becomes 30 . Find the width of
the river.
[20 m]
23) An airplane flying with uniform speed horizontally and one kilometer above the
ground is observed at an elevation of 60 . After 10 seconds, if the elevation is
observed to be 30 , then find the speed of the airplane in (km/h).

240 3

24) The angle of depression of a boat in a river is 30 from the top of a tower 87 m
high and the speed of the boat is 5.8 km/h. Find the time taken by the boat to

9 3

min

10

reach the base of the tower.

25) The angles of depression of the top and the foot of the chimney as seen from
the top of a second chimney which is 150 m high and standing on the same
level as the first are and respectively. Find the distance between their tops
if tan

5
4
and tan .
2
3

[100 m]

26) A person observes the angle of elevation of a building as 30 . The person

proceeds towards the building with a speed of 25

3 1 m / h . After two hours,

he observes the angle of elevation as 45 . Find the height of the building

(in metres).
[50]
27) The angle of elevation of the cloud at a point 2500 m high from the lake is 15
and the angle of depression of its reflection to the lake is 45 . Find the height of
the cloud from the foot of the lake.

2500 3 m