Triangles
Sides
Trig Ratios
Miscellaneous
Elevation/Depression
100
A triangle with a 90 degree angle
What is a right triangle
100
What theorem solves for sides of a right triangle
What is the Pythagorean theorem
100
The ratio that makes up Sine
What is opposite over (or divided by) hypotenuse
100
How many feet are in a mile
What is 5,280 feet
100
If you are standing on a cliff looking down at the ocean, is the angle to the ocean an angle of elevation or depression?
What is an angle of depression
200
The side opposite to the right angle in a triangle is called
What is the hypotenuse
200
In what order do we label the sides of a triangle
What is Hypotenuse, Opposite, Adjacent
200
The ratio that makes up Tangent
What is opposite over (or divided by) adjacent
200
Sine, Cosine, and Tangent only work for these kinds of triangles.
What are right triangles
200
Bill is standing 30 meters from the base of a building. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is 35 degrees. To the nearest meter, how tall is the building?
What is 21 meters
300
What is the side across (farthest away) from the given angle or theta
What is opposite
300
The longest side in right triangle is.
What is the hypotenuse
300
List all of the reciprocal trig. functions
What is Secant, Cosecant, and Cotangent
300
What is the acronym that we use to remember the three basic trig functions?
What is SOH CAH TOA
300
Mary is standing 15 feet from the base of a tree. She sees a birds's nest in the tree and measures the angle of elevation to the nest at 62 degrees. How high, to the nearest foot, is the nest above the ground?
What is 28 feet
400
You are shown a right triangle with a known angle of 40 degrees, what it the measure of the third angle?
What is 50 degrees
400
Triangle ABC, where Angle C is the right angle, find the hypotenuse, given that angle A is 37 degrees and the opposite side is 4 (round to the nearest tenth)
What is 6.6
400
The ratio formed by hypotenuse over (or divided by) opposite
What is Cosecant
400
What Units have we covered in class prior to Right Triangles?
What are Linear Functions, Exponential Functions, and Logarithms
400
A great white shark swims 22 feet below sea level. If the shark is 67 feet away from a sailboat, what is the angle of depression (rounded to the nearest degree) to the shark?
What is 18 degrees
500
If two triangles have the same angle measures, but different side lengths, what would the triangles be called?
What is similar triangles
500
Triangle ABC, where Angle C is the right angle, find the adjacent side, given that angle A is 50 degrees and the opposite side is 11 (round to the nearest tenth)
What is 9.2
500
Which ratios do not use the hypotenuse
What is tangent and cotangent
500
If you deposited money in an account that compounded continuously versus daily, which would yield more interest over time (assuming the same amount is deposited in both accounts and they earn the same interest rate)
What is continuous compounding
500
A plane is flying at 35,000 feet when the engines fail. What angle of depression must the plane maintain to land safely 50 miles away? (round to the nearest tenth of a percent)
What is 7.6 degrees
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