Right Triangle Word Problems

How far from the base of a house do you need to place a 15' ladder so that is exactly reaches the top of a 12' wall?

• 9 feet

• 19.2 feet

• 81 feet

• 369 feet

You are attacking an enemy castle. Your strategy is to go over the castle wall. You are 1500 meters away from the bottom of the wall. You measure the angle of elevation to the top of the wall at 3^o. How tall is the enemy castle wall?

• 78.6 meters

• 1498.0 meters

• 78.5 meters

• 75.3 meters

The bottom of a 13-foot straight ladder is set into the ground 5 feet away from a wall. When the top of the ladder is leaned against the wall, what is the distance above the ground it will reach?

Your family wants to purchase a new laptop with a 17" widescreen. Since the 17 inches represents the diagonal measurement of the screen (upper corner to lower corner), you want to find out the actual dimensions of the laptop. When you measured the laptop at the store, the height was 10 inches, but you don't remember the width. Calculate the width of the laptop to the nearest tenth of an inch.

A plane flying at 2000 ft altitude begins a 25 degree angle of descent to land. How far does the plane travel before it lands??

Jake built a skateboard ramp that covers a horizontal distance of 10 ft.  The ramp rises a total of 3.5 ft.  What angle does the ramp make with the ground? Round to the nearest degree.

A plane takes off at an angle of 30 degrees and reaches a height of 10 miles.  What is the diagonal distance it has traveled from take off to its current position?

A tourist views a deer from a height of 45 feet.  The horizontal distance between the tourist and the deer is 130 feet.  How many degrees should the tourist tilt his camera down to photograph the deer? Round your answer to the nearest degree.  

NOTE: you are NOT finding x. you are finding the other angle

• 19 degrees

• 45 degrees

• 71 degrees

• 138 degrees 

A 25ft ladder is leaning up against a wall. If the ladder makes a 63^o with the ground, how far is the base of the ladder from the wall?

• 12.4 ft

• 11.3 ft

• 22.3 ft

• 49.1 ft

You are standing 10 feet away from a tree. There is a cat up in the tree. Your eyes make a 48 degree angle to look up at the cat. How high is the cat?

• 11.1 ft.

• 9 ft.

• 7.4 ft.

• 13.8 ft.