General Knowledge
Which side is opposite to the angle θ? (Picture)
What is B.
Which side is adjacent to the angle θ? (Picture)
What is A.
The cosine of an angle is always between what two numbers?
What is 0 and 1.
What is Sinθ equal to?
What is opposite/hypotenuse.
What is the correct ratio set up for finding the tangent of Angle A? (Picture)
What is 16/12
Which side of a triangle is always the longest?
What is the hypotenuse.
What is the only type of triangle that trigonometric functions work on?
What are right triangles.
Why does the value for the sine of an angle never get bigger than 1?
What is because the hypotenuse is the largest side.
What is Cosθ equal to?
What is adjacent/hypotenuse.
What is the value for X?
What is 7.3
What are the abbreviations for Sine, Cosine, and Tangent?
Sine - Sin
Cosine - Cos
Tangent - Tan
What is the Greek letter that is used to represent an angle measure
Theta (θ)
Sin25 = Cos__?
What is Cos65.
What is Tanθ equal to?
What is opposite/adjacent.
You are standing at a point on the ground 47 feet from the bottom of a 33ft tree. Find the angle of elevation to the top of the tree.
What is 35º.
What do all the angles in a triangle always add up to?
What is 180 Degrees.
What is the name of the theorem that relates the measures of the angles in a triangle?
What is the Angle Sum Theorem.
If tanD x tanE = 1, then m∠D + m∠E = ___?
What is 90 degrees.
The ratio adjacent/hypotenuse is equal to which trig function?
What is cosine.
Triangle ABC is isosceles. Calculate the height of triangle ABC. (Picture)
What is 17.4
Which angle is the angle of elevation? (Picture)
What is X.
What are the values of the angles in an isoceles right triangle?
What is 45 45 90.
If ∠X and ∠Y are the acute angles in a right triangle, and tanX = 9/2, what does tanY equal?
What is 2/9.
If you are given the two sides that are NOT the hypotenuse, which trig function should you use?
What is tangent.
A surveyor wants to know the height of a skyscraper. He places his inclinometer on a tripod 1m from the ground. At a distance of 50m from the skyscraper, he records an angle of elevation of 82 degrees.
What is the height of the skyscraper? (Picture)
What is 356.8m.