Grade 9 Bilingual Math

Solving right angled triangle

Jackie.Zhou
Yantai Yew Wah International School
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Steepness of ladder
Can you tell which one is more steep?
What your reason? How to measure the steepness?
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Properties
angle xed, the ration of opposite and adjacent legs is xed
Denition (Tangent)
In a right angled triangle ABC, if acute angle A is xed, the ratio of
opposite leg and adjacent leg is xed. The xed ratio is called Tangent of
angle A, labeled as tan A.
tanA =
opposite leg of A
adjacent leg of A
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the larger tanA is, more steep the ladder is
Example 1
In the following two elevators, which one is more steep?
Sol: tanA =
6
8
=
3
4
, tanB =
5

13
2
5
2
=
5
12
since tanA > tanB, the rst elevators is more steep.
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Exercise
(1) As in the graph, in the RT

MNP, P = 90

. Then the opposite

leg of M is , the adjacent leg of M is ,the opposite
leg of N is , the adjacent leg of N is .
Figure: graph of ex1 Figure: graph of ex2
(2) As in the graph,

ABC is an isosceles triangle, get the value of tan

C with the given data.
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Denition (Sine and Cosine)
0 Sine of: A: ratio between the opposite leg and hypotenuse, labeled
as sin A i.e.,
sinA =
opposite leg
hypotenuse
=
a
c
0 Cosine of A: ratio between the adjacent leg and hypotenuse, labeled
as cos A i.e.,
cosA =
adjacent leg
hypotenuse
=
b
c
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Trigonometric functions
tanA =
a
b
sinA =
a
c
cosA =
b
c
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Example
(1) In the RT

ABC,C = 90

, AB=5, AC=2. Get the values of sin A

and cos A.
(2) In the above graph, if AB=200, sin A=0.6. What is the length of BC?
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Some special angles
Properties of the rulers
, ruler 1: the length of one leg is half of the length of the hypotenuse.
, ruler 2: isosceles triangle
What are the size of the angles?
30

, 45

, 60

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Finish the table below:
[htbp] sin tan
30

45

60

Exercise
(1) sin 60

tan 60

(2) cos 60

+ tan 45

(3)

2 sin 45

+ sin 30

2 cos 45

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Use calculator
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Solving right angled triangle
Solving right angled triangle
Use given data to get all the size of angles, length of edges in a right
angled triangle
Properties we can use
% two acute angles: A +B = 90

% edges: a
2
+ b
2
= c
2
% angles and edges:
sin A = cos B =
a
c
, cos A = sinB =
b
c
, tan A =
a
b
, tan B =
b
a
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p two elements are necessary
p at least one of them is the length of a edge
Example
In RT

ABC, given that C = 90

, a = 35, b = 28. Get the size of

angles A, B (1 d.p.) and the length of edge c (1 s.f.).
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