Practice with
Trigonometry - Set 1
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Test your skills on the following problems.
Grab your calculator and a piece of paper.
 

1. In right triangle ABC, c = 17, a = 15, b = 8 and angle C is a right angle.  Express tan B.

Choose:

8/17
15/17
8/15

 

 

2. A ladder 6 feet long leans against a wall and makes an angle of 71º with the ground.  Find to the nearest tenth of a foot how high up the wall the ladder will reach.

 

Choose:

2.0 feet
3.5 feet
5.7 feet
6 feet

 

 

3. A piece of lumber leans against a wall.  The top of this 40 foot piece of lumber touches a point on the wall that is 36 feet above the ground.  Find to the nearest degree the measure of the angle that the lumber makes with the wall.
 

Choose:

26º
38º
64º

 

Challenger:

4.


Angle B and C are each 92º.  AB and CD each equal 6 feet.  The distance from A to D is how much larger than the distance from B to C (to the nearest hundredth).
(You may assume in this figure that the top, the bottom, and side BC are all horizontal.  Also assume that a segment connecting point A to point D will be horizontal.)

Choose:

0.21
0.42
1.21

 

 


 
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