WAEC (WASSCE) Mathematics · Trigonometry
Angles of elevation and depression: WAEC Mathematics Past Questions and Answers
What the WAEC syllabus covers in Angles of elevation and depression
Our summary: Using trig to find heights and distances from looking up or down at something.
- Calculating angles of elevation and depression
- Application to heights and distances
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WAEC (WASSCE) Mathematics questions on Angles of elevation and depression
- WAEC 2024A cliff on the bank of a river 87 m high. A boat on the river is 22 m away from the cliff. Calculate, correct to the nearest degree, the angle of depression of…
- WAEC 2023Mrs Kebeh stands at a distance of 110 m away from a building of vertical height 58 m. If Kebeh is 2 m tall, find the angle of elevation of the top of the…
- WAEC 2023The angle of elevation of the top of a building from a point Z on the ground is 50°. If the height of the building is 124 m, find the distance from Z to the…
- WAEC 2022A ladder 6m long leans against a vertical wall at an angle 53º to the horizontal. How high up the wall does the ladder reach?
- WAEC 2022A boy 1.4 m tall, stood 10m away from a tree of height 12 m. Calculate, correct to the nearest degree, the angle of elevation of the top of the tree from the…
- WAEC 2020A fence 2.4 m tall, is 10m away from a tree of height 16m. Calculate the angle of elevation of the top of the tree from the top of the fence.
- WAEC 2019From the top of a vertical cliff 20m high, a boat at sea can be sighted 75m away and on the same horizontal position as the cliff. Calculate, correct to the…
- WAEC 2018The angle of elevation of the top of a tree from a point 27m away and on the same horizontal ground as the foot of the tree is 30 ^o . Find the height of the…
- WAEC 2017A stationary boat is observed from a height of 100m. If the horizontal distance between the observer and the boat is 80m, calculate, correct to two decimal…
- WAEC 2015The angle of elevation of an aircraft from a point K on the horizontal ground 30 . If the aircraft is 800m above the ground, how far is it from K?
- WAEC 2014A man's eye level is 1.7m above the horizontal ground and 13m from a vertical pole. If the pole is 8.3m high, calculate, correct to the nearest degree, the…
- WAEC 2013An object is 6m away from the base of a mast. The angle of depression of the object from the top pf the mast is 50o, Find, correct to 2 decimal places, the…
- WAEC 2012A kite flies on a taut string of length 50m inclined at tan angle 54o to the horizontal ground. The height of the kite above the ground is
- WAEC 2011a boy looks through a window of a building and sees a mango fruit on the ground 50m away from the foot of the building. If the window is 9m from the ground…
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