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Trigonometry Important Questions for Class 10 Maths





Given below are the Class 10 Maths trigonometry extra questions.This includes both important and tough questions
a. Multiple Choice Questions
b. Short Answer type
c. Long answer type
d. Fill in the blanks
e. True and false

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1
If $x(cos A) - y(sin A) = a$, $x(sin A) + y(cos A) = b$, the tick mark whichever option is correct
a. $x^2 -y^2 = a^2 -b^2$
b. $x^2 +y^2 = a^2 +b^2$
c. $x^2 +y^2 = a^2 - b^2$
d. $x^2 -y^2 = a^2 + b^2$

Question 2
If $cos A=\frac {1}{2}$, $sin B =\frac {1}{2}$ then value of A +B
a. 30°
b. 60°
c. 90°
d. 120°

Question 3
If $sin (X + Y) = cos (X - Y) =1$ then
a. X = Y = 90°
b. X = Y = 0°
c. X = Y = 45°
d. X = 2Y


Short Answer type

Question 4.
If $sec X= a + \frac {1}{4a}$, prove that $sec X+ tan X=2a \; or \; \frac {1}{2a}$

Question 5.
If $Sin A+ Sin^2 A= 1$, then find the value of $(cos^2 A+cos^4 A)$.

Question 6
If $tan 2A = cot (A - 18^{\circ})$, where 2A is an acute angle. Find the value of A.

Question 7
If $tan (A+B) = \sqrt {3}$ and $tan (A - B) = \frac {1}{\sqrt {3}}$ Find the value of A and B.

Question 8
If $sin (A+B) = 1$ and $cos (A-B) = \frac {\sqrt {3}}{2}$, $0 \leq (A+B) \leq 90 \; ,\; A \geq B$, then find the value of A and B.

Long Answer type

Question 9
If $sin \theta - cos \theta = 0$, then Find the value of $(sin^4 \theta + cos^4 \theta)$

Question 10
If $sec \theta + tan \theta =p$ then find the value of $cosec \theta $

Question 11
If A and B acute angles such that $tan A = \frac {1}{2}$ , $tan B = \frac {1}{3}$ and
$tan (A + B) =\frac { tan A + tan B}{1- tan A tan B}$, find A + B.

Question 12
Prove that
a. $tan 10^{\circ} tan 15^{\circ} tan 75^{\circ} tan 80^{\circ} = 1$
b. $tan 1^{\circ} tan 2^{\circ} tan 3^{\circ} .... tan 89^{\circ} = 1$
c. $cos 1^{\circ} cos 2^{\circ} cos3^{\circ} .... cos 180^{\circ} = 0$

Question 13
Prove the following identities, where the angles involved are acute angles for which the expressions are defined.

a. $ \frac {cos A}{1 + sin A} + \frac {1 + sin A}{cos A} = 2 sec A$
b. $ \frac {1 + sec A}{sec A} = \frac {sin^2 A}{1- cos A}$
c. $ \sqrt { \frac {1+ sin A}{1- sin A} } = sec A + tan A$

Question 14
In a $\Delta ABC$ right angled at C, if $tan A = \frac {1}{\sqrt {3}}$ find the value of
$sin A cos B + cos A sin B$.

Question 15
If $ sec \theta - tan \theta = x$, show that:
$sec \theta = \frac {1}{2} [x + \frac {1}{x}]$
$tan \theta =\frac {1}{2} [\frac {1}{x} -x]$

Question 16.
If $tan \theta = \frac {12}{5}$
Find the value $ \frac {1+ sin \theta }{1 -sin \theta }$

Question 17
If $sin \theta + cos \theta = \sqrt {2} cos (90 - \theta)$,find $cot \theta$

Question 18
Prove that
If $ tan^2 \theta = 1 -p^2 $, then prove that $sec \theta + tan^3 \theta cosec \theta = (2 - p^2) ^ {3/2}$.

Fill in the blanks

Question 19
(i) If sin A =4/5, the value of cos A = _____
(ii) if tan A + cot A =2, then the value of $tan^2 A +cot^2 A =$ ____
(iii) if cos A = 12/13, then the value of tan A = _____
(iv) The value $sin ^2 30 + sin^2 60 =$ _______

True and false

Question 20
(i) $cos^4 A - sin^4 A + 1=2 sin^2 A$
(ii)$\frac {tan 46^0}{cot 44^0} =1$
(iii)$tan^2 A + cot^2 A=1$
(iv) The value of cos A is $p + \frac {1}{p}$, where p is a positive number.

Summary

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Practice Question

Question 1 What is $1 - \sqrt {3}$ ?
A) Non terminating repeating
B) Non terminating non repeating
C) Terminating
D) None of the above
Question 2 The volume of the largest right circular cone that can be cut out from a cube of edge 4.2 cm is?
A) 19.4 cm3
B) 12 cm3
C) 78.6 cm3
D) 58.2 cm3
Question 3 The sum of the first three terms of an AP is 33. If the product of the first and the third term exceeds the second term by 29, the AP is ?
A) 2 ,21,11
B) 1,10,19
C) -1 ,8,17
D) 2 ,11,20



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