# Class 10 trigonometry Problems with Solutions

Question 1.
Given
$a cosec A = p$ and $b cot A = q$,
then prove that
$\frac {p^2}{a^2} - \frac {q^2}{b^2} =1$

Question 2.
Prove the following trigonometric identities:
a.$cos^2 \theta (1 + tan^2 \theta) = 1$
b. $cos^2 \theta + \frac {1}{1+ cot^2 \theta} =1$
c. $\frac {1}{1+ sin \theta } + \frac {1}{1-sin \theta } = 2 sec^2 \theta$
d. $cosec^2 \theta + sec^2 \theta =cosec^2 \theta sec^2 \theta$
e.$tan \theta - cot \theta = \frac {2sin^2 \theta -1}{sin \theta cos \theta}$

Question 3.
If A, B, C are interior angles of $\Delta ABC$, show that
$cosec ^2 (\frac {B+C}{2} ) - tan ^2 \frac {A}{2} =1$

Question 4.
If $x = a sec \theta + b tan \theta$ and $y=a tan \theta + b sec \theta$ ,prove that
$x^2 -y^2 = a^2 -b^2$

Question 5
Prove the following identities:
i. $2(sin^6 \theta + cos^6 \theta ) -3 (sin^4 \theta + cos^4 \theta ) + 1=0$
ii. $sin^6 \theta + cos^6 \theta + 2 sin^2 \theta cos ^2 theta =1$
iii. $(sin^8 \theta -cos^8 \theta = (sin^2 \theta -cos^2 \theta) (1 -2sin^2 \theta cos^2 \theta )$

Question 6.
If $cosec A -cot A = q$, then show that
$\frac {q^2 -1}{q^2 + 1} + cos A =0$

Question 7.
If $x = p sec \alpha cos \beta$, $y = q sec \alpha sin \beta$ and $z = r tan \alpha$, then show that
$\frac {x^2}{p^2} + \frac {y^2}{q^2} -\frac {z^2}{r^2} =1$

Question 8.
Prove that
$(1+ cot \theta) (1 + tan \theta + sec \theta )=2$

Question 9.
Prove that
cot4 A – 1 = cosec4 A – 2cosec2 A
Question 10.
$\frac {sin A -cos A +1}{sin A + cos A -1} = \frac {1}{sec A -tan A}$
Question 11.
if $tan A + sin A =m$ and $tan A -sin A =n$
Prove that

Question 12
$sin A(1 + tan A) + cos A(1 + cot A) = sec A + cosec A$

Question 13
$\frac {tan A}{1- cot A} + \frac {cot A}{1-tan A} = 1 + tan A + cot A$
Question 14
$\sqrt {sec^2 A + cosec^2 A} = (tan A + cot A)$

Question 15
if $xsin^3 A + ycos^3 A = sin A cos A$
and $x sin A = y cos A$
Prove that
$x^2 + y^2 =1$

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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