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APPLICATIONS OF TRIGONOM ETRY

1. Height of the student and length of his/her shadow is same. Then find the
angle of sun rays fallen on student.
2. A girl stands on a building whose height is Sm. From that she observed a bird
at 600 elevation angle which is flying in the sky, and she observed a ball at 450
depression angle which is on the earth. Draw an appropriate diagram to given
data.
3. There are two poles either sides of the canal. An observer observed from 60m
height of the pole to foot of other pole at an angle 600 depression. He observed
the foot of the first pole from the top of second pole at an angle of 30 0. Find the
width of the canal and height of the second pole.
4. From the top of a tower the angle of depression of a car which is on the
ground is 300. And the distance between the car and foot of the tower is 40 m.
Then find the height of the tower.
5. A ramp for disabled people in a hospital must slope of 30°. If the height of the
ramp is 2 m. Draw the suitable rough diagram for the above data.
6. An electric worker erected a pole of height 18 m with the support wire. If the
support wire making an angle of 60° with the ground, what is the length of the
support wire.
7. Two boys standing on opposite sides of a tower of height 70 m observed that
the angles of elevation of the top of the tower are 300 and 450 respectively. Find
the distance between two boys.
8. A tower stands vertically on the ground. It is observed that length of the
shadow of the tower is equal to its height. At that time, what was the angle of
elevation of the Sun?
9. An aeroplane at an altitude of 240 meters observes the angles of depression
of two ships on opposite direction to be 450 and 600. Find the distance between
two ships.
10. Two poles of equal heights are standing opposite to each other on either side
of the road, which is 100 meters wide. From a point between them on the road,
the angles of elevation of the top of the poles are 30º and 60º respectively. Find
the height of the poles and the distances of the point from the poles.

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11. A pole of 6m high casts a shadow 2 m long on the ground then find the
angle of elevation of sun.
12. Angle of elevation of top of pole from a point 8 mts away from foot of pole is
600. Find the area of triangle formed with this data.
13. A flag pole is on a building of 8 m height. A man standing at a distance from
foot of the building observed the top of building at an angle of 30 0 and the top of
flag pole at an angle of 60°. Find the height of flag pole.
14. A kite with a string is flying at a height of 60 m. If the string is tied at a point
on the ground making an angle of inclination 600 then find the length of the
string.
15. Two trees of heights h1 m and h2 m are on the either side of the road of width
50m. Trees tops were observed from a point on the road at angles 30 0 and 450
respectively. Draw the figure to the given data?
16. Two poles, one is 3 times to other in height were on either side of the 180 feet
width road. From a point the road, smaller pole and bigger pole were observed at
an angle of elevation are 600 and 300 respectively. So find the distances from the
point to the poles?
17. A tree breaks due to storm and the broken part bends so that the top of the
tree touches the ground by making 45º angles with the ground. The distance
between the foot of the tree and the top of the tree on the ground is 5m. Draw the
figure to the given data?
18. Two poles of equal height standing vertically opposite to each other on
opposite side of a road of width 50 m. From a point on the road the angle of
elevation of the tops of pole are 600 and 300. Find the height of the poles.
19. A man of height 179 cm observing a top of tower with the angle of elevation
of 60° and observing foot of tower with the angle of depression 30°. Draw a
figure for this situation.
20. A man standing between two equal height poles and observing top of poles
with angle of elevation 600 and 30° respectively. Then find the length of poles
and distance of the poles from the point he stands of the distance between the
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21. The length of shadow of a tower on ground is times of the tower then
angle of depression of sun is _____
22. A girl stands on a building whose height is 5m. From that she observed a
bird at 600 elevation angle which is flying in the sky, and she observed a ball at
450 depression angle which is on the earth. Draw an appropriate diagram to
given data.
23. There are two poles either sides of the canal. An observer observed from
60m height of the pole to foot of other pole at an angle 60 0 depression. He
observed the foot of the first pole from the top of second pole at an angle of 30 0.
Find the width of the canal and height of the second pole.
24. Sreevidya observed the top of a tree at an angle of elevation 60° when the
observation point is ‘12’ m away from the foot of the tree. Draw a neat diagram
for the above data.
25. From the top of a building of height 24’ m the angle of elevation of the top of
a cell tower’ is 600 and the angle of depression to its foot is 450 then find the
height of the cell tower.
26. A person observed the top of a tree at an angle of elevation of 30 0 when the
observation point is 6 meters away from the foot of the tree. Find the height of
the tree?
27. A person observed the top of the tree at an angle of elevation 600, the angle
of elevation changes to 450 when the person move 8 m away from the tree. Draw
the correct diagram of the above data?
28. From the top of a building 60m high the angles of depression of the top and
the bottom of a tower are observed to be 30° and 600. Then Find the height of the
tower.
29. Two men on either side of a tree observe its top at the angles of elevation 30º
and 60º respectively. Show that the ratio of the distances from them to the
bottom of the tree is 1:3.
30. A boy observed the top of an electric pole at angle of elevation 45°. The angle
of elevation changed to 30° when he moved 10m away from the pole. Find the
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31. A student observes that the length of his shadow is same as his height. At
this time, at what angle sun rays fall on the earth.
From a point which is 10 m away from foot of a tower, an angle of elevation of
top of the tower is 300. Find the height of the tower.
32. Two men ‘A’ and ‘B’ are on either side of the tower of height 30 m. They
measure the angles of elevation of the top of the tower is 30° and 60°
respectively. Find the distance between them and who is near to the tower.
Justify your answer with proper reasons.
33. If Raghu observed 12 m high tree at the angle of elevation 450 then find the
distance from foot of the tree to Raghu.
34. An observer is on a tree of height x mts, which is on the bank of a river and
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he observed a flying plane in the angle of elevation , at the same time he also
observed the image of the plane in river water in the angle of depression 0.
Draw a figure for this data.
35. If a Man observes a top of a temple and top of the flag of height 5 metres on
the temple in the angle of elevation 30° and 45° respectively. Then find the height
of the temple and the distance from the foot of the temple to the observer.
36. The shadow of temple of height 50 m is 50 m, at the same time find the
angle of elevation from the top of the temple to the Sun?
37. The shadow of a vertical tower on level ground increases by 10 meters when
the altitude of the Sun changes from angle of elevation 45 0 to 30°. Find the height
of the tower. (Take = 1.73)
38. An observer 1.5 m tall is 20.5 m a way from a tower 22 m high. Determine the
angle of elevation of the top of the tower from the eye of the observer.
39. The angle of elevation of the top of a vertical tower from a point on the
ground is 600. From another point 10 m vertically above the first, its angle of
elevation is 450. Find the height of the tower.
40. Ramya observes a flower on the ground from the balcony of first floor of a
building at an angle of depression is 450. The height of the first floor is 5 metres.
Draw the diagram for this data.