17. Copy the table below and put a tick (✓) in the correct box in each row to show whether each statement is true or false.
Statement (i) (ii)
The angle of elevation from your eye to the top of a tree increases as you walk towards the tree.
If you are on the fifth floor of a building, the angle of depression to the street is less than if you are on the fourth floor of the building.
(iii) As you watch a plane fly above you, the angle of elevation to the plane gets closer to 0° as the plane approaches directly overhead.
(iv) An angle of depression must be less than 90°. (v)
The value of the sin, cos and tan of an angle must be less than 1. (vi) The value of the sin, cos and tan of an angle will increase if the angle increases. Revision questions
19A Core skills 1. Using Pythagoras’s theorem, calculate the length of x in each of the following right-angled triangles. Give your answers correct to one decimal place. (i)
(ii) 4.2 m
12 cm x
5 cm 6.4 m x x 8 cm 14 cm 12.3 mm x (iii) (iv) 6.8 mm True False
2. Use your calculator to find the value of each of the following. Give your answers correct to three decimal places.
(i) tan 22° (vii) tan 31°
(ii) cos 44° (viii) cos 17°
(iii) tan 38° (ix) sin 45°
(ii) cos X = 0⋅4995 (vi) tan X = 0⋅404
(ii)
(iv) cos 60° (x) cos 38°
(v) sin 42° (xi) tan 65°
(iii) tan X = 1⋅4552 (vii) cos X = 0⋅682
(iii)
(vi) sin 80° (xii) sin 38°
3. Use your calculator to find the measure of angle X, to the nearest whole number, given the following. (i) sin X = 0⋅3456 (v) sin X = 0⋅5736
(iv) cos X = 0⋅9511 (viii) tan X = 2⋅0503
4. For the given triangles, express as a fraction the sin, cos and tan of the angles marked A and B. (i)