Alg 3 Ch 7.2, 8 Trig Problems, Law Cosines/Sines1
Assignment Sheet
Trig Problems, Law of Cosines and Sines
1) Page 4 of Packet
2) P. 495 # 7,11,15,18,19,22,27,29
3) P.507 # 5, 7, 9,11, 15, 17, 19
4) P.507 # 23, 25 27 29 31
5) Review
7.2 Right Triangle Trigonometry
Using our knowledge of SohCahToa…. Solve the following problems.
1) A 12 foot ladder is placed against a house so that the ladder makes a
65° angle with the ground. How high on the house does the ladder reach?
2) New Brunswick is building a ramp and overpass over a highly trafficked highway. The angle of the ramp needs to be 10°. If the height of the ramp must be 16 ft, how many feet from the highway does the town need to build the ramp?
3)An airplane that is landing at NewarkAirport, is currently 12.5 miles away (horizontally) from the runway. It has an altitude of 5 miles. What is the angle at which the pilot needs to descend?
Terminology:
Angle of elevation is the angle between the horizontal and the line of sight to the top of an object.
Angle of depression is determined by the horizontal line down to the line of sight.
The “typical” right triangle:
4)If B = and b = 25, find a
5)If A = 70°, a = 35, find b
What about an obtuse triangle? (Might need to make some right triangles)
6) If A = , a = 1, find b and c.
7)What is the area of the triangle in problem 6?
Assignment 1
1)Given a triangle ABC with angle C = 90°, solve the following. Do all rounding to the nearest tenth.
a) B = 42.3°, a = 20, find c.b) B = 15.5°, b = 48, find a.
c) A = 18°, c = 38, find a.d) b = 18, c = 34, find A.
2)How tall is a tree whose shadow is 47’ long when the angle of elevation of the sun is .
3)
A 35m church has a 50m long shadow. What is the angle of depression of the sun?
4)A surveyor is standing exactly 100 ft from a redwood tree. He measures the angle of elevation to the top of the tree as 70°. How tall is the tree?
5) A balloon is floating between 2 people 50’ apart. The angle of elevation of the balloon from one is 63.5and the angle of elevation from the other is 32.6. How high is the balloon?
Ch 8.1 Law of Cosines
What happens if you don’t have a right triangle and you want to find sides and angles?
Law of Cosines: Given limited information you can find the remaining sides and angles.
The Law of Cosines
Works for ANY triangle with angles A, B, & C and opposite sides a, b & c.
For right triangles, what was necessary to get all the angles and sides?
For non-right triangles, using the Law of Cosines, what do we need to get all the sides and angles?
Using the Law of Cosines, solve the following (calculators help, but are NOT necessary). If you cannot calculate the unknown due to insufficient information, state so.
1. a=6, b = 4, C=60°, find c.2. b=15, c=, A=, find a.
3. a=, c=12, B=150°, find b4. a=, b=7, c=9, find A.
5. a=8, b=, A=30°, find B6. a=4, b=6, c=, find A, B & C.
Reminder: Don’t forget that all angles add up to 180°, so there is no reason to do the calculation 3 times on problem 6.
Area of a Triangle Let ∆ABC = Area
∆ABC= by sinA =
∆ABC = bcSinA
∆ABC = acSin B
∆ABC = abSinC
EX. Find the area of the triangle,
Heron’s Formula: s = (a + b + c ) ∆ABC
Find the area of the triangle:
8.2 Law of Sines
ASA, AAS
sin A = sin C =
c (sin A) = a (sin C)
ex. Find a if A = 30, B = 45, and b = 8
ex. Find b if B = 60, C = 75, and a = 15
ex. To the nearest meter, find the distance across the pond if
The last remaining possible situation: SSA
Think of a wrecking ball where one side and one angle are set.
Case 1: no solution (not possible) (error message)
a < h
Case 2: one solution, two ways
Case 3: two solutions
Ex. Solve for B, C and c if a = 50, b = 65 and A = 57 (SSA)
65(sin57) = 50(sinB)
54.5 = 50(sinB)
1.09 = sin B
(not possible, -1 sin B 1 )
Ex. Solve for B, C and c if a = 60, b = 65 and A = 57 (SSA)
Ex. Solve ∆ABC if c = 8, b = 20 and B = 122
Sample problems:
Get the remaining sides of angles of the following triangles. Express all answers correct to two decimal places.
(1) a = 5.7, b = 6.9 , C = 90, ,,
(2) a = 13.32 , A = 18.7 , C = 90
(3) a = 2.6 , b = 3.1 , c = 4.3
(4) a = 14 , c = 8.1 , B = 58.2
(5) A = 28.3 , B = 61.3 , c = 40
(6) A = 51 , c = 18 , a = 25
Answers
(1) c = 8.95 , A = 39.56 , B = 50.44
(2) B = 71.30 , b = 39.35 , c = 41.55
(3) A = 36.82 , B = 45.62 , C = 97.56
(4) A = 86.52 , C = 35.28 , b = 11.92
(5) C = 90.40 , a = 18.96 , b = 35.09
(6) B = 94.98 , C = 34.02 , b = 32.05
Review Problems
Part 1
1. Solve the following right triangles (C is the right angle).
a) a = 2, b = 7 b) mA = 16º, c = 14
c) mB = 64º, c = 19.2d) a = 9, mB = 49º
e) mB = 30º, b = 11
2. Solve the following triangles completely.
a) mA = 49º, mB = 57º, a = 8b) mA = 83º, a = 80, b = 70
c) mB = 70º, mC = 58º, a = 84 d) a = 5, b =6, c = 7
e) mB = 47º, a = 20, b = 24f) mA = 95º, a = 6, b = 8
g) mA = 58º, a = 26, b = 29
3. A shadow 30 m long is thrown from a tree. If the angle of depression of the sun is 65º, how tall is the tree?
4. The angle of elevation from a point on the ground to the top of a building is 38º. From a point 50 ft closer, the angle of elevation is 45º. How tall is the building?
5. A tree is broken by the wind. The top touches the ground 13 m from the base of the tree. It (the broken branch) makes an angle with the ground of 29º. How tall was the tree?
6. A triangular lot faces 2 streets that meet at an angle of 85º. The sides of the lot facing the streets are each 160 ft. Find the perimeter of the lot.
7. Two planes leave an airport at the same time, each flying 110 mi/hr. One flies 60º east of north, the other flies 40º east of south. How far apart are the planes after 3 hours?
8. The sides of a triangle are 6.8 cm, 8.4 cm and 4.9 cm. Find the measure of the smallest angle.
9. A 40 ft antenna stands on top of a building. From the ground, the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the antenna are 56º and 42º respectively. How tall is the building?
Part 2
1. A balloon is floating between two observers who are 220 feet apart. The angle of elevation of the balloon from observer one is 67º and from observer two is 31º. How far is the balloon from observer one?
2. To find the distance across a canyon, a surveying team locates points A and B on one side of the canyon and point C on the other side of the canyon. The distanced between A and B is 85 yards. mCAB is 68º and mCBA is 88º. Find the distance across the canyon.
3. The longer side of a parallelogram is 6.00
meters. mA = 56º and mα= 35º. Find
the length of the longer diagonal.
4. Two observers in line directly under a kite, and 30 ft. apart, observe the kite at angle of elevations of 62º and 78º respectively. Find how high the kite is in the air.
5. A 35 foot high telephone pole is situated on an 11º slope from A. The
angle of elevation from point A to the
top of the pole is 32º. Find the length
of the wire AC.
6. A surveying team determines the height of a hill by placing a 23 ft pole at the top and measuring the angles of elevation to the bottom and the top of the pole. If they are 70º and 75º respectively, find the height of the hill.
7. A developer has a triangular lot at the intersection of two streets. The streets meet at an angle of 72º and the lot has 300 ft of frontage along one street and 416 ft of frontage along the other street. Find the length of the third side of the lot.
8. The sides of a triangular city lot have sides of 224 ft, 182 ft and 165 ft. Find the smallest angle.
9. Find the number of acres in a pasture whose shape is a triangle with sides 800 ft, 1020 ft and 680 ft. (Hmm…how many square feet in an acre?)
Answers:
Part 1
1. a) c=7.28, mA=15.9, mB=74.1 b) mB = 74, a = 3.86, b = 13.5
c) mA = 26, a = 8.42, b = 17.3d) b = 10.3, c = 13.7 , mA = 41º
e) mB = 60, a = 19.1, c = 2.2
2. a) mC = 74º, b = 8.89, c = 10.2, A = 34,2
b) mB = 60.3º, mC = 36.7, c = 48.2, A = 1670
c) mA = 52º, b = 100, c = 90.4, A 3570
d) mA = 44.4, m57.1, mC = 78.5, A = 14.7
e) mA = 37.6º, mC = 95.4, c = 32.7, A = 239
f) no triangle
g) mB = 71.1, mC = 50.9, c = 23.8, A = 293
mB’ = 108.9, mC’ = 13.1, c’ = 6.95, A’ = 85.4
3. h = 64.34. h = 179 ft
5. h = 22.1 m6. p = 536 ft
7. d = 424 mi8. 35.7˚
9. h = 61.9 ft
Part 2
1. 114 ft2. 194 yd
3. 8.67 m4. 40.3 ft
5. 95.9 ft.6. 64.2 ft
7. 431 ft8. 46.5˚
9. 271558 square ft = 6.23 acres