In this worksheet, students use trigonometry to solve bearings questions. Brush up on your knowledge of corresponding angles on. Bearings worksheets bearings questions maths made easy. While traveling across flat land, you notice a mountain directly in front of you.
Find the angle of depression from the top of a lighthouse 250 feet above water to the water line of a ship 2. Word problems involving angles, including but not limited to. Compass bearings are used as methods of navigation in relation to the north direction by angles. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate number. Word problems using trigonometry and bearings youtube. Project create a tessellation pattern on construction by cutting a shape from a threebythree square of paper and using it as a traceable pattern. Read each question carefully before you begin answering it. Hi here are bearing questions practice with answers. They help locate objects or positions within a twodimensional plane, such as a. Missing information about bearings can be worked out using the sine and cosine rules.
A bearing is an angle, measured clockwise from the north direction. In general, you will either be asked to use an existing diagram to determine the bearing between two points using a protractor or facts given in the question or. How to find bearings when the diagram is not to scale i. Using a protractor, the angle can be measured as 35. Bearings using bearings in trigonometry bbc bitesize.
Licensed by your school with permission to redistribute. Worksheet bearings the bearing of a ship from point a is 040 o and from point b is 340 o. Calculating bearings worksheets with answers teaching. Five differentiated worksheets with detailed solutions that allow. Given that n n a b use a protractor to draw the position of the ship. Determine bearings using the sum or difference of other bearings. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Use the scale on the map to convert distances into metres, and follow the rules for writing bearings.
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