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SOHCAHTOA (Trigonometry)

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  1. Calculator 3 marks

    The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.

    8 cmx cm40°Diagram NOT accurately drawn

    Calculate the length of the side marked \(x\).

    Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

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    \(5.1\ \text{cm}\)
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  2. Calculator 4 marks

    Here is a right-angled triangle.

    5 cm4 cmxDiagram NOT accurately drawn

    Give your answers correct to 1 decimal place.

    (a)

    Work out the size of the angle marked \(x\).

    (b)

    Work out the size of the third angle of the triangle.

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    (a) \(38.7^\circ\)
    (b) \(51.3^\circ\)
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  3. Calculator 3 marks

    The diagonal of a rectangle is \(23.5\) cm long.

    The diagonal makes an angle of \(37^\circ\) with a side of length x cm.

    No diagram is given.

    Find the value of \(x\).

    Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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    \(18.8\ \text{cm}\)
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  4. Calculator 3 marks

    The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.

    15 cmx cm54°Diagram NOT accurately drawn

    Work out the length of the side marked \(x\).

    Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.

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    \(25.5\ \text{cm}\)
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  5. Calculator 3 marks

    The diagram shows a right-angled triangle.

    22 cmx cm60°

    Calculate the exact length of the side marked \(x\).

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    \(11\ \text{cm}\)
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  6. Calculator 4 marks

    Idris measures the ramp in a playground. It is \(14\) m long and meets the level ground at an angle of \(34^\circ\).

    14 m34°Diagram NOT accurately drawn

    Give your answers correct to 1 decimal place.

    (a)

    Find the vertical height of the top of the ramp above the ground.

    (b)

    Find the horizontal distance covered by the ramp.

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    (a) \(7.8\ \text{m}\)
    (b) \(11.6\ \text{m}\)
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  7. Calculator 2 marks

    Sam is finding the length of the side marked \(x\) in this right-angled triangle.

    20 cmx cm32°Diagram NOT accurately drawn

    Here is Sam's working.

    \(\mathrm{ tan }\,32^\circ = \frac{ 20 }{ x }\)

    \(x = 20 \ ÷ \ \mathrm{ tan }^{-1}\,32^\circ\)

    Here are six statements about Sam's working.

    1. Sam has used the wrong ratio for the sides in the triangle. 2. Sam has put the fraction the wrong way up. 3. Sam should have used the theorem of Pythagoras, not trigonometry. 4. Sam has used the wrong length for the side that is given. 5. Sam has multiplied where it should be divided, or divided where it should be multiplied, when rearranging the equation. 6. Sam has used an inverse function to find a length.

    Two of the statements are errors that Sam has made. Identify the two errors by writing down the numbers of the two statements.

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    statements \(2\) and \(6\): the fraction upside down and an inverse function used for a length
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  8. Calculator 5 marks

    The diagram shows a shape made by joining a right-angled triangle to a rectangle. The dashed line is a side of the rectangle and a side of the triangle.

    4 cm8 cm43°Diagram NOT accurately drawn

    Find the area of the whole shape. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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    \(59.7\ \text{cm}^2\)
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  9. Calculator 4 marks

    The diagram shows two right-angled triangles, \(ABD\) and \(CBD\), joined along \(BD\) to make the larger triangle \(ABC\). \(ADC\) is a straight line and angle \(ADB\) is \(90^\circ\).

    9 cm16 cmADCB51°

    Find the size of angle \(BCD\).

    Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

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    \(34.8^\circ\)
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  10. Calculator 3 marks

    \(DCB\) is a straight line. \(AC\) is perpendicular to \(DB\), so \(ADC\) and \(ABC\) are right-angled triangles.

    DCBA

    \(CB = 13\) cm

    Angle \(ADC = 50^\circ\) and angle \(ABC = 33^\circ\).

    Find the length of \(AD\).

    Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.

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    \(11.0\ \text{cm}\)
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discia.org SOHCAHTOA (Trigonometry) · sheet 1
Answers SOHCAHTOA (Trigonometry) · sheet 1
  1. \(5.1\ \text{cm}\)
  2. (a) \(38.7^\circ\)
    (b) \(51.3^\circ\)
  3. \(18.8\ \text{cm}\)
  4. \(25.5\ \text{cm}\)
  5. \(11\ \text{cm}\)
  6. (a) \(7.8\ \text{m}\)
    (b) \(11.6\ \text{m}\)
  7. statements \(2\) and \(6\): the fraction upside down and an inverse function used for a length
  8. \(59.7\ \text{cm}^2\)
  9. \(34.8^\circ\)
  10. \(11.0\ \text{cm}\)
discia.org SOHCAHTOA (Trigonometry) · sheet 1