Trigonometry
Triangles & Angles
Angles
Quadratics
Applications Questions
100

You use it when you know the length of the hypotenuse and the adjacent side.

What is Cosine.

100

When looking up, the angle of ___________ is the angle your line of sight makes with the horizontal.

What is the angle of elevation.

100

What is it called when 2 angles add up to 90°?

What is an complementary angle?

100

What does a graph that represent a quadratic relation look like?

What is a parabola opening up.

200

You use it when you know the hypotenuse and the opposite side.

What is Sine.

200

When looking down, the angle of _____________ is the angle your line of sight makes with the horizontal.

What is the angle of depression.

200

What is it called when 2 angles add up to 180°

What is an supplementary angle?

200

Which direction does this parabola open 

f(x) = –2(x – 12)^2 + 15?

What is downward.

300

You use it when you know the length of the opposite side and the length of the adjacent side.

What is Tangent.

300

If you are given a triangle with the case of two angles and a side, which trig function would you use to solve it?

What is Sin.

300

When two lines are crossed by another line, the angles in matching corners are called?

What are corresponding angles?

300

How many zeros does f(x) = a(x – 5)^2 have if        a < 0?

What is 1

300

See picture. 

What is angle <DAB, <BEF, <EFS and <BED?

What is 120°, 107°, 28° and 72°.

400

What is the Cosine Law?

What is a^2 = b^2 + c^2 - 2bc cosA 

or b^2 = a^2 + c^2 - 2ac cosB 

or c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2ab cosC

400

If you are given a triangle with the case of two sides and a non-included angle, which trig function would you use to solve it?

What is Sin.

400

When two lines are crossed by another line: _______ are a pair of angles on the inner side of each of those two lines and on opposite sides of the transversal.

What are Alternate Interior Angles?

400

Solve x^2+ 6x + 5 = 0.

What is x=5 and x=1

400

A flag pole is supported by guy wires from the top of the pole to points on the ground on opposite sides of the pole. One of the wires is 6.8 m long and rises with an angle of elevation of 58°. The other wire is 7.4 m long. What would be the angle of elevation for this wire?

What is 51°.

500

What is the Sin Law?

What is SinA/a = SinB/b = SinC/c

500

If you are given a triangle with the case of two sides and a included angle, which trig function would you use to solve it?

What is Cosine.

500

When two lines are crossed by another line: _______ are a pair of angles on the outer side of each of those two lines and on opposite sides of the transversal.

What are Alternate Exterior Angles?

500

Solve 10 + 5x^2+ 18x = –4x^2– 18x – 10 by factoring.

What is x=-2/3 and x=-10/3

500

An airplane is flying directly toward two forest fires. From the airplane, the angle of depression to one fire is 43° and 20° to the other fire. The airplane is flying at an altitude of 2500 ft. What is the distance between the two fires to the nearest foot?

What is 4188 ft apart.