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    Trigonometry II 3D Pythagoras and Trigonometry

    of the latter cable is 50 as


    indicated.

    a) Find the angle between the cable


    Test Your Understanding attached to A and the horizontal
    [AQA Jan 2013 Paper 2] The diagram shows a plane.
    cuboid ABCDPQRS and a pyramid b) Find the distance between A
    PQRSV . V is directly above the and B .
    centre X of ABCD .

    a) Work out the angle between the line 3. Frost Manor is as pictured, with
    VA and the plane ABCD . (Reminder: EFGH horizontally level.
    Drop VA onto the plane)

    b) Work out the angle between the planes


    VQR and PQRS .
    Exercise 2

    1. A cube has sides 8cm. Find:


    a) The length AB .
    b) The angle between AB and the
    horizontal plane.
    a) Find the angle between the line
    AG and the plane ABCD .
    b) Find the angle between the planes
    FGIJ and EFGH .

    4. A school buys a set of new extra


    comfort chairs with its seats pyramid
    in shape. X is at the centre of the
    base of the pyramid, and M is the
    midpoint of BC .

    2. A radio tower 150m tall has two


    support cables running 300m due East
    and some distance due South,
    anchored at A and B . The
    angle of inclination to the horizontal
    a) By considering the triangle

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    EBC , find the length EM .
    16cm
    b) Hence determine the angle
    between the triangle EBC and
    the plane ABCD . 7.

    5. [June 2013 Paper 2]


    ABCDEFGH is a cuboid. M
    is the midpoint of HG . N is
    the midpoint of DC .

    a) Determine the angle between the


    line AI and the plane ABCD .
    a) Show that BN = 7.5m b) Determine the angle between the
    b) Work out the angle between the planes FHI and EFGH .
    line MB and the plane
    ABCD . 8. A truncated pyramid is formed by
    c) Work out the obtuse angle slicing off the top of a square-based
    between the planes MNB and pyramid, as shown. The top and
    CDHG . bottom are two squares of sides 2 and
    4 respectively and the slope height 3.
    6. [Set 3 Paper 2] The diagram shows
    part of a skate ramp, modelled as a
    triangular prism.
    ABCD represents horizontal
    ground. The vertical rise of the ramp,
    CF , is 7 feet. The distance
    BC =24 feet.

    Find the angle between the sloped


    faces with the bottom face.

    You are given that


    vertical rise
    gradient=
    horizontal distance
    a) The gradient of BF is twice the
    gradient of AF . Write down the
    distance AC .
    b) Greg skates down the ramp along
    FB . How much further would he
    travel if he had skated along FA .

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    a) X is a point on AB such
    that XC is the line of greatest
    slope on the triangle ABC .
    Determine the length of AX .
    b) Hence determine DX .
    c) Hence find the angle between the
    planes ABC and ABD .

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    Exercise 3

    1. [June 2012 Paper 2 Q13]


    Work out angle x .
    5. The angle is obtuse. Determine
    .

    2. Here is a triangle. Work out .


    6. [June 2012 Paper 1] Triangle ABC has an
    obtuse angle at C. Given that
    1
    sin A= , use triangle ABC to
    4
    show that angle B=60 .

    3. Use the cosine rule to determine x .

    7. [June 2013 Paper 2 Q23] In triangle


    ABC , AP bisects angle BAC .
    Use the sine rule in triangles ABP and
    AB BP
    ACP to prove that = .
    AC PC
    4. Given that the area of the triangle is
    24cm2. Find the values of x and y .

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