Pythagorean Theorem
The hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of length 6 and 10.
What is 11.6 or 2√34?
The other term for a 45-45-90 triangle.
What is Isosceles Right Triangle?
The cosine ratio for an angle in a right triangle.
What is adjacent over hypotenuse?
The angle type of a person on the ground looking to a Leprechaun on a rainbow.
What is angle of elevation?
Matthew is trying to impress Caroline by doing some sick tricks on his skateboard. He tries to skid on the railing of some stairs and falls to the bottom. Name the angle type of Caroline standing at the top staring disapprovingly down at Matthew.
What is angle of depression?
The other leg of a triangle with a leg of length 12 and a hypotenuse of length 14
What is 7.21 or 2√13?
The hypotenuse of a 45-45-90 triangle that has a leg length of 7.
What is 7sqrt2?
An escalator at a shopping mall is 220 feet long, and raises at an angle of 15º. What is the vertical rise of the escalator? (round to the nearest foot)
What is 57 feet
A nursery plants a new tree and attaches a guy wire to help support the tree while its roots take hold. An eight foot wire is attached to the tree and to a stake in the ground. From the stake in the ground the angle of elevation of the connection with the tree is 42º. Find to the nearest tenth of a foot, the height of the connection point on the tree.
What is 5.4 feet?
What is the acronym for the Sine, Cosine, and Tangent ratios?
SOH CAH TOA
The type of triangle with side lengths of 6, 8, and 10.
What is a right triangle?
The short leg of a 30-60-90 Triangle with a hypotenuse of 10
What is 5?
Right triangle ABC has <B=90º, AC=29, and BC=24. Find m<A to the nearest degree.
What is 56º?
Ash Ketchum is perched 40 Ft up in a tree. He looks down at a 35 degree and spots a Pikachu. How far is Ash from the Pikachu?
What is 69.7 Ft?
to find a side I use SIN, COS, or TAN, but i use this to find an angle
What is the inverse trig function
The type of triangle with side lengths of 28, 30, and 31.
What is an acute triangle?
The short leg of a 30-60-90 triangle with a long leg of 15.
What is (15sqrt3)/3
If a 12 foot ladder is leaning against a wall and makes a 80º angle with the ground. How high up the wall does the ladder reach?
What is 11 feet 10 inches?
A boy is standing across the street form his apartment. His mother is on their balcony yelling at him to come clean his room. The angle of elevation from between the boy's eyes and the mother's eyes is 22 degrees. If the distance between their eyes is 32 Ft, how far is the child standing from the apartment?
What is 30 ft?
The leg of an Isosceles Right Triangle with a hypotenuse of 7.
What is (7sqrt2)/2
A 16-ft ladder is leaning against a building. The top of the ladder touches a window 15.5 Ft above the ground. How far is the base of the ladder from the building?
What is 4 Ft?
The type of special right triangle with a hypotenuse of length 14 and a leg of length 7.
What is 30-60-90?
A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 10 and one leg of length 7. Find the length of one of the acute angles of the triangle.
What is 46º or 44º.
An airplane is flying at an altitude of 1.9 mi. The airport where it will land is 50 mi. away. Find the angle of descent for the plane.
What is 2 degrees?
A biologist looks up at a 78 degree angle of elevation to see a flock of wild dragons. The biologist of 200 Ft away. How high up are the dragons?
What is 940 Ft?