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Test your skills on the following
problems.
Grab your calculator and a piece of paper.
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In
right triangle ABC, c = 17, a = 15, b = 8 and angle C is
a right angle. Express tan B.
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Choose:
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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.
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Choose:
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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.
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Choose:
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Challenger:
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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.)
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