Instruction: Answer the following real life problems involving right triangles. Provide illustration and encircle
your final answer. Round-off your answer to the nearest hundredths. USE ANOTHER SHEET OF PAPER.
1. A kite flying at a height of 85 m is attached to a string inclined at 50° to the horizontal. What is the length of
string?
2. An airplane is observed to be approaching the air point. It is at a distance of 45 km from the point of observation
and makes an angle of 55 degree. Find the height above the ground.
3. A ladder placed against a wall such that it reaches the top of the wall of height 35 m and the ladder is inclined at
an angle of 60 degree. Find how far the ladder is from the foot of the wall.