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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Negros Island Region
Division of San Carlos City
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental

FOURTH QUARTER EXAMINATION

MATHEMATICS 9

DIRECTION: Read and analyse each item carefully. Write the letter that corresponds to the answer. If the answer is not
found among the choices, solve/compute for the answer. The use of scientific calculator is allowed.

1. What do you call the angle from the horizontal 8. In a triangle that is not right, the Law of Sines
to the line of sight of the observer to the object cannot be used when _________.
below? A. Two sides and an angle are given
A. Angle of elevation B. Two angles and any side are given
B. Angle of depression C. Two angles and an included side are given
C. Angle of sight D. Three sides are given
D. Angle of intersection
9. The expression 2(cos 60) cot 45 is equal to __.
2. With respect to the given angle, what is the A. -1 C. 1
ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side? B. 0 D. 2
A. Sine C. Secant
B. Tangent D. Cotangent 10. A bamboo pole is leaning against a tree. If the
height of the tree is 11.5 meters and the angle
3. Given a triangle DEF, where F is right and D made by the pole and the ground is 45, what
measures 30, what is the measure of FE if is the length of the pole?
DF = 23? A. 8.1 m C. 19.9 m
A. 2 C. 6 B. 16.3 m D. 23 m
B. 4 D. 3
11. An equilateral triangle PQR has a perimeter of
A 36 cm. What is the length of its altitude?
4. In the triangle ABC, what
is the length of AC? A. 33 cm C. 53 cm
13 cm
A. 1 cm B. 43 cm D. 63 cm
B. 5 cm
C. 9 cm C B 12. In an oblique triangle, when two sides and an
12 cm
D. 12 cm included angle are given, which law can be used?
A. Law of Sines C. Law of Tangents
5. What is the value of x? B. Law of Cosines D. All of these
45
A. 3 6
B. 32 x 13. In relation to a certain angle, what is the ratio
C. 6 of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse?
D. 62 45 A. Cosine C. Cosecant
B. Sine D. Secant
6. Two ships leave the same port at the same
time. One ship sails on a course of 110 at 32 For item nos. 14 18, refer to the illustration below.
miles per hour. The other sails on a course of D
230 at 40 miles per hour. Find the distance
between them after 2 hours. Express your 20
12
answer to the nearest mile.
A. 124 miles C. 126 miles
B. 125 miles D. 127 miles E
16
F

7. PQR is right at Q, PQ = 12 cm and QR 14. Which sine ratio is correct?

3 4
= 5 cm. What is cos R? A. sin = 4 C sin = 5
12 5
A. 13 cm C. 12 cm 4 3
B. sin = D. sin =
5 5
5 12
B cm D. cm
13 5
15. What is the value of secant E?
A. 0.75 C. 1.25
B. 0.80 D. 1.33

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16. What is the value of E to the nearest degree? 25. Rocel observes a car and a tree from a window.
A. 98 C. 37 The angle of depression of the car is 45 and
B. 47 D. 23 that of the tree is 30. If the distance between
the car and the tree is 75m, find Rocels
17. Which ratio defines cotangent D? horizontal distance from the tree? (Use the set-
A. 4
3 4
C. 5 up below)
4 5
B. D.
3 4

18. Which trigonometric value is correct?

A. tan E = 0.8 C. sec D = 1.25
B. cot F = 0.6 D. csc E = 1.66

19. Considering the figure at 5 A. 175 m C. 177 m

the right with K=30, L J B. 176 m D. 178 m
which statement is FALSE?
A. JK = 10 26. Base on the illustration below, what is the
height of the tree? Express your answer to the
B. tan K = nearest feet.
C. cos J =
D. sin K =
K
20. In a triangle ABC, the measure of A=30 and
the side opposite it is 3 units, which ratio shows
sine A?
A. C. 3
B. 2 D. 23

21. In a right triangle MNO, with O is right; the A. 16 feet C. 20 feet

measure of MN = 5 cm and NO = 4 cm. What B. 18 feet D. 24 feet
is sine N?
3 5
A. 5 C. 3 27. Refer to the illustration in item #26, what is the
4 5 distance between the man at the right to the tree?
B D. A. 16 feet C. 22 feet
5 4
B. 20 feet D. 24 feet
22. A balloon is 50 m high. Its angle of elevation
from observer A is 45 and from observer B it is For item nos. 2830, refer to the illustration
30. What is the maximum distance between below;
the two observers? Express your answer to the
nearest meter.
A. 136 m C. 138 m
B. 137 m D. 139 m

23. In the figure at the right, what is the value of x?

A. 4.5 9
B. 18 30o

C. 33
D. 63 x

24. An airplane is flying at a height of 5 kilometers

above the ground. The distance along the
ground from the airplane to the airport is 5 28. What do you call the angle observed from the
kilometers. What is the angle of depression boat to the lighthouse?
from the airplane to the airport? A. Angle of elevation
A. 30 C. 45 B. Angle of depression
B. 55 D. 60 C. Angle of sight
D. Angle of intersection

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29. What is the angle of depression of the For nos. 35 36, refer to the illustration below;
lighthouse to the boat?
A. 20 C. 50
B. 40 D. 70

30. What is the angle of elevation of the sun from

the lighthouse?
A. 20 C. 50
B. 40 D. 70

For item nos. 31 32, refer to the figure below;

1 35. If the distance of the bush from the post is

26m, what is the distance of the man with a
dog from the post? Express your answer to the
2
nearest meter.
3 A. 16 m C. 32 m
B. 19 m D. 45 m
4
36. If the height of the post is 19m, what is the
distance of the man with a dog from the bush?
I. 1 III. 3 Express your answer to the nearest meter.
II. 2 IV. 4 A. 11 m C. 33 m
B. 14 m D. 38 m
31. Which angle illustrates angle of elevation?
A. I only C. I & III 37. The lengths of the two adjacent sides of a
B. II & IV D. I & IV parallelogram are 2 cm and 8 cm. If the angle
formed by these two sides is 30, find the
32. Which angle illustrates angle of depression? length of the shorter diagonal.
A. I only C. I & III A. 5.58 cm C. 7.2 cm
B. II & IV D. I & IV B. 6.35 cm D. 7.7 cm

33. The shadow of an electric pole is 5m long when 38. The hill slopes upward at an angle of 14o with
the angle of elevation of the sun is 60. Find the horizontal ground. What height does a man
the length of the shadow when the angle of reach when he has travelled 100 m upward
elevation of the sun is 45. Express your from the foot of the hill?
answer to the nearest meter. A. 24 m C. 26 m
A.
53
m C. 2.5 m B. 25 m D. 27 m
3

B. 53 m D. 3.75 m 39. Find the perimeter of a regular pentagon

inscribed in a circle of radius 9 cm?
34. An airplane is 2 miles above the ground. The A. 27.8 cm C. 40.8 cm
angle of depression to the tree is 15. What is B. 39.6 cm D. 52.9 cm
the horizontal distance between the tree and
the airplane? 40. Find the area of a regular pentagon inscribed in
a circle of radius 9 cm?
A. 192 cm2 C. 194 cm2
B. 193 cm2 D. 195 cm2

A. 7.5 miles C. 8.5 miles

B. 8 miles D. 9 miles

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TABLE OF SPECIFICATION
ITEM PLACEMENT BASE ON
NUMBER
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY
LEARNING COMPETENCIES OF %
Easy Average Difficult
ITEMS
57.5 % 30% 12.5%
THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF TRIGONOMETRY
1. Defines the six
trigonometric ratios sine, 14, 15,
8 2,4,7,13 18 20%
cosine, tangent, secant, 17
cosecant and cotangent
2. Finds the trigonometric 3, 5, 20, 9, 11,
8 19 20%
ratios of special angles 23 21
3. Describes and illustrates
angles of elevation and 2 29,30 5%
angles of depression
4. Recognizes situations
1, 28,
that involve angles of 4 10%
31, 32
elevation and depression
5. Solves problems that
involve angles of 4 24,33 25 22 10%
elevation and depression
6. Uses trigonometric
27, 34, 10, 35,
ratios to solve problems 7 26 17.5%
38 36
involving right triangles
7. Illustrates Laws of Sines
3 8,12 16 7.5%
and Cosines
8. Solving problems
involving oblique 4 37, 39 40 6 10%
triangles
TOTAL 40 23 12 5 100%

Contributor: Salvador Achilles L. Abeto, V@Sipaway National High School