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SIMPLIFY THE FOLLOWING:

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II. VERIFY THE FOLLOWING:

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III. WORD PROBLEMS:
1. A support wire is anchored 12 m up from the base of a flagpole and the wire makes a 15 angle with the

ground. How long is the wire?

2. Find the trigonometric functions of the acute angles of the right triangle ABC, given b = 24 and c=

25.
3. When the sun is 20 above the horizon, how long is the shadow cast by abuilding 50m high?
4. A tree 100 ft tall casts ashadow 120 ft long. Find the angle of elevation of the sun.
5. Aladder leans against the side of a building with its foot 12 ft from the building. How far from the
ground is the top of the ladder and how long is the ladder if it makes an angle of70 with the ground?

6. From the top of a lighthouse, 120 m above the sea, the angle of depression of a boat is 15 . How far is

the boat from the lighthouse?

7. Find the length of the chord of a circle of radius 20 cm subtended by a central angle of 150 .
8. Find the height of a tree if the angle of elevation of its top changes from 20to 40 as the observer
advances 75 ft toward its base.
9. A tower standing on level ground is due north of point A and due west of point B, a distance cft from
A. If the angles of elevation of the top of the tower as measured from A and B are and ,
respectively, find the height h of the tower.

10. Find A to the nearest minute and to the nearest hundredth of a degree.

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Solve the right triangle in which A = 3510' and c= 72.5.

12. SolvetherighttriangleABCinwhicha=43.9andb=24.3.

13. The base of an isosceles triangle is 20.4 and the base angles are 4840'. Find the equal sides and the
altitude of the triangle.
14. Tofind the width of a river, a surveyor set up his transit at Con one bank and sighted across to a point
Bon the opposite bank; then turning through an angle of 90, he laid off a distance CA = 225 m.
Finally, setting the transit at A, he measured CAB as 4820'. Find the width of the river.
15. From a point A on level ground, the angles of elevation of the top Dand bottom Bof a flagpole
situated on the top of a hill are measured as 4754' and 3945'. Find the height of the hill if the height
of the flagpole is 115.5 ft.
16. From the top of a lighthouse, 175 ft above the water, the angle of depression of a boat due south is
1850'. Calculate the speed of the boat if, after it moves due west for 2 min, the angle of depression
is1420'.
17. Find the base and altitude of an isosceles triangle whose vertical angle is 65 and whose equal sides are 415
cm.
18. A tower 45 m high casts a shadow of 12 m. What is the angle of elevation of the sun?
19. A rectangle is 48 cm long and 34 cm wide. What is the angle the diagonal makes with the longer side?
20. A railroad track makes an angle of 4.8 with the horizontal. How far must the train go up the track for it to gain
30 m in altitude?