A solid is formed by joining a right circular cone to a hemisphere. The circular base of the cone coincides exactly with the circular face of the hemisphere. The common radius is and the perpendicular height of the cone is .

Find the slant height of the cone.
Find the total outside surface area of the solid.
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In triangle , , and .

Find .
Find the area of triangle .
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A cuboid has length cm, width cm and height cm. Point is one vertex on the base and point is the opposite vertex on the top face. Take the positive -, - and -axes along , and respectively.

Find the midpoint of , using coordinates with .
Find the length of .
Find the angle between and the base of the cuboid.
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A circle has centre and radius m. The minor arc has length m, and it subtends an angle radians at .

Find .
Find the length of chord .
Find the area of the minor segment bounded by chord and the minor arc .
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A boat sails from point to point for on a bearing of . It then sails from to point for on a bearing of .
Find .
Find the distance .
Find the area of triangle .
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A sector has centre , radius and angle . The minor segment is the region between chord and the arc . The diagram is not drawn to scale.

Find the length of the arc .
Find the area of the minor segment.
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A right square-based pyramid has base of side length . Its vertex is vertically above the centre of the base. The height is .

Find , where is a vertex of the square base.
Find the slant edge .
Let be the angle between and the base plane. Determine .
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A rectangular cuboid has length , width and height . A diagonal is drawn from one lower vertex to the opposite upper vertex.

Find the length of the projection of the diagonal on the base.
Find the length of the diagonal of the cuboid.
Find the angle between the diagonal and the base plane.
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A solid is formed by joining a right circular cone to a hemisphere. The cone and hemisphere have the same circular base of radius cm. The total height of the solid is cm. The external surface area of the solid is .

Write down an expression for the slant height, , of the cone in terms of .
Find the value of .
Find the volume of the solid.
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A boat travels from port to port , a distance of km on a bearing of . It then travels from to port , a distance of km on a bearing of .

Find the distance .
Determine the bearing of from .
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In triangle , cm, cm and the area of the triangle is . Angle is obtuse.

Find angle .
Find .
Find angle .
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Two points and lie on horizontal ground in a straight line with the base of a vertical tower. Point is m closer to the tower than point . The angles of elevation of the top of the tower from and are and respectively.

Calculate the height of the tower.
Calculate the distance .
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Two observation points and lie on horizontal ground on the same straight line with the foot of a vertical tower. Point is between and , and . The angle of elevation of the top of the tower from is , and from is .

Let . Find exactly.
Find the height of the tower.
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A sector of a circle has radius and angle radians, where . The perimeter of the sector is and its area is . The diagram is a non-scale schematic and does not imply that is a minor angle; both minor and reflex sectors are permitted.

Find in terms of .
Determine all possible pairs .
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Points and lie on an east-west coastline, with due east of and . A lighthouse is observed on a bearing of from and on a bearing of from .

Find the angles and .
Find .
Find the perpendicular distance from to the coastline.
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In a circle with centre , chord has length and subtends an angle .

Find the radius of the circle.
Find the area of sector .
Find the area of the minor segment cut off by chord .
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In three-dimensional space, points , , and have coordinates
, , and .
Find the midpoint of .
Find .
Determine the angle .
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A right square pyramid has a horizontal square base of side length cm. Its apex is vertically above the centre of the base. Each slant edge makes an angle of with the base plane.

Find the height of the pyramid.
Find the volume of the pyramid.
Find the angle between two adjacent slant edges.
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Two points and are on level ground, with due east of and m. The base of a vertical mast is on a bearing of from and on a bearing of from . The angle of elevation of the top of the mast from is .

Calculate the horizontal distance .
Calculate the height of the mast.
Calculate the straight-line distance from to .
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A right circular cone has slant height cm and curved surface area . The curved surface can be opened out to form a sector of a circle.

Find the radius of the base of the cone.
Find the angle of the sector in radians.
Find the volume of the cone.
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The points , and are in 3-dimensional space. Let be the midpoint of .
Find the coordinates of .
Find the perimeter of triangle .
Determine angle , in radians.
Find the area of triangle .
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A right square-based pyramid has base of side length . Its vertex is vertically above the centre of the base. The perpendicular height is . Let be the midpoint of .
Find .
Find the length of the slant edge .
Find , the slant height of one triangular face.
Find the total surface area of the pyramid.
Let be the angle between the triangular face and the base plane. Show that .
Find the volume of the pyramid.
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In triangle , , and . Point lies inside the triangle such that bisects and meets at .
Find .
Find the area of triangle .
Find .
Hence, or otherwise, find the length .
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A surveying point is from a point on a bearing of . A point is due east of and is on a bearing of from . A vertical mast has its base at and its top at .

Show that .
Find .
The angle of elevation of from is . Find the height of the mast.
Find the angle of elevation of from .
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A sector has centre , radius and angle radians. The arc length is and the perimeter of the sector is .
Find .
Find .
Find the length of chord .
Find the area of sector .
Find the area of the minor segment bounded by chord and the arc .
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In three-dimensional space, points , , and have coordinates , , and .
Find the coordinates of , the midpoint of .
Find and .
Find .
Let be the angle between and the plane . Determine .
Find the volume of tetrahedron .
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A right circular cone has base radius and perpendicular height . The cone is cut by a plane parallel to its base, halfway up its height. The smaller cone above the cut is removed, leaving a frustum with both circular ends exposed.

Find the slant height of the original cone.
Find the volume of the frustum.
Find the total surface area of the frustum.
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A glass roof is in the shape of a right rectangular pyramid. Its rectangular base is by , and its vertex is vertically above the centre of the base. The height is .

Find the distance from to a corner of the rectangular base.
Find the length of a slant edge of the roof.
Determine the angle between a slant edge and the base plane.
Find the total area of the four triangular faces of the roof.
Solar panels are to cover of the roof area. Each panel covers . Determine the least number of panels needed.
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Two observation posts and are on level ground, with due east of and . A weather balloon is vertically above point on the ground. The bearing of from is and the bearing of from is . The angle of elevation of the balloon from is .

Find the angles , and .
Calculate and .
Calculate the height of the balloon above the ground.
Calculate the straight-line distance from to the balloon.
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A sculpture is made from two identical right circular cones joined exactly at their circular bases. The common base radius is and the distance between the two vertices is . The sculpture fits exactly inside a sphere centred at the centre of the common base, with both vertices lying on the sphere.

Find the perpendicular height of each cone.
Find the slant height of each cone.
Find the angle at a vertex between the axis of the sculpture and the slant edge.
Find the total external surface area of the sculpture.
Find the percentage of the sphere's volume occupied by the sculpture.
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A vertical mast has its base at on horizontal ground and its top at . Three guy wires join to ground anchors , and , where distances are measured in metres. The wire has length . The diagram is schematic and not drawn to scale; use the coordinates given rather than the apparent positions of the points.

Show that .
Find the lengths of and .
Determine the angle between wire and the ground plane.
The mast and the three anchors form a triangular pyramid . Find its volume.
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A sector of a circle has radius cm and angle radians. The perimeter of the sector is cm and the area of the sector is .

Show that satisfies .
Determine the possible values of and .
For the sector with the larger radius, find the length of the chord joining the endpoints of the arc.
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A solid is made from a hemisphere of radius cm by removing a right circular conical cavity. The base of the cone is the flat circular face of the hemisphere and the apex of the cone is the highest point of the hemisphere.

Find an expression, in terms of , for the volume of the remaining solid.
The exposed surface area of the solid is . Find .
Find the volume of the remaining solid.
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A roof is a right rectangular pyramid on a horizontal rectangular base measuring by . The apex is vertically above the centre of the base. The sloping line from the apex to the midpoint of one of the sides makes an angle of with the base plane.

Find the height of the roof.
Find the angle made with the base plane by the sloping line from the apex to the midpoint of one of the shorter sides.
Calculate the volume of the air space under the roof.
Find the total sloping surface area of the roof.
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A solid is made by joining two right circular cones base-to-base. The common circular base has radius . The perpendicular heights of the two cones are and respectively. The circular base where the cones meet is not exposed.

Find the slant height of the cone with height .
Find the slant height of the cone with height .
Find the external surface area of the solid.
Find the volume of the solid.
point lies on the common circular rim. Let and be the vertices of the cones. Determine .
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A sector of a circle has radius and angle radians. Its perimeter is fixed at , where .
Show that .
Show that the area of the sector is .
Determine the maximum possible value of and the value of for which it occurs.
For this maximum area sector, find the length of the chord joining the endpoints of the arc.
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Two observation points and are on level ground, with due east of and . A radio transmitter has base on the ground. The bearing of from is , and the bearing of from is . The top of the transmitter is , vertically above .

Find .
Find .
The angle of elevation of from is . Find the height .
Find the angle of elevation of from .
Find the straight-line distance .
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A decorative garden bed is in the shape of a minor circular segment. Its boundary consists of a chord of length and a minor arc of length . The arc belongs to a circle of radius and subtends an angle radians at the centre, where .

Show that satisfies .
Use your GDC to find and .
Find the area of the garden bed.
path of width is built outside the arc only, forming a larger sector with the same angle . Find the area of the path.
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A park has the shape of a quadrilateral . The lengths are , , and . The angle is .

Find .
Find angle .
Calculate the area of the park.
straight path is to be built from to . Calculate the length of this path.
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A sector of a circle has radius , angle radians and fixed perimeter . Assume that .

Show that the area of the sector can be written as .
State the possible values of .
Determine the maximum possible area of the sector and the corresponding value of .
sector with perimeter has area .
For a sector with perimeter and area , find all possible pairs .
For the two sectors corresponding to the pairs found in part (c)(i), determine which has the longer chord joining the endpoints of the arc.
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Two tracking stations and are on level ground, with due east of and . A drone is vertically above point on the ground. The bearing of from is , and the bearing of from is . The angle of elevation of the drone from is .

Show that triangle is right-angled at .
Find and .
Calculate the height of the drone above the ground.
The drone then flies horizontally due south at while maintaining the same height. Determine the greatest angle of elevation of the drone from during this motion, and the time after it starts moving when this occurs.
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A decorative lampshade is made by cutting a sector from a circle of radius and joining the two straight edges of the sector to form a right circular cone. The angle of the sector is radians, where .

Show that the base radius of the cone is cm.
Find the volume of the cone when the base radius is .
Show that the volume may be written as
Determine the value of which gives the maximum possible volume, and find this maximum volume.
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A right square-based pyramid has slant edges of fixed length . Its apex is vertically above the centre of the square base. Let be the angle between a slant edge and the base plane.

Show that the side length of the square base is .
Write down the height of the pyramid in terms of .
Show that the volume of the pyramid is .
Determine the maximum possible volume of the pyramid.
For the pyramid of maximum volume, find the angle between two adjacent slant edges.
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Two radio stations and are apart on an east-west line, with due east of . A transmitter is on a bearing of from and on a bearing of from . A drone is vertically above .

Find the angles and .
Calculate the horizontal distances and .
The angle of elevation of the drone from is . Calculate the height of the drone above the ground and the angle of elevation of the drone from .
In a general case, the baseline distance is , the bearing of from is where , and the bearing of from is where . Show that
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A sculpture is modelled using coordinates in metres. Its triangular base has vertices , and . The apex is , where . The angle between and the base plane is radians.
Item | x [m] | y [m] | z [m] | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A | 0 | 0 | 0 | base vertex |
B | 8 | 0 | 0 | base vertex |
C | 2 | 6 | 0 | base vertex |
P | 3 | 2 | 0 | foot of perpendicular |
T | 3 | 2 | apex, | |
Angle(TA, base plane) | — | — | — | 0.900 rad |
Find , where is the foot of the perpendicular from to the base.
Find the height of the sculpture.
Find the volume of the tetrahedron .
Calculate the angle .
Let the apex instead be vertically above an arbitrary point in the base plane, at the same height . Find the equation of the set of points for which the distances from the apex to and are equal.
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A triangular sail has two fixed sides of lengths and . The included angle is , where . The area of the sail is required to be .

Show that .
Find the two possible values of .
Explain why two different sails are possible.
Find the third side length for each possible sail.
For fixed sides and and fixed area , where , show that the two possible values of the third side satisfy
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A rectangular box has side lengths , and , where . A small insect travels from one vertex of the box to the opposite vertex along the outside surface of the box. The shortest surface path can be found by unfolding two adjacent faces into a rectangle.

For a box with side lengths , and , find the length of the straight path in each of the three possible unfoldings.
State the shortest path length for this box.
For the general box, the three squared path lengths are
Show that is the shortest.
Hence find the shortest surface path for a box with side lengths , and .
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A window is formed from a rectangle of width and height , with a semicircle of radius attached to the top. The outside perimeter of the window is fixed at .

Show that .
Write down the area of the window in terms of and .
Show that the area may be written as
Determine the dimensions of the window that give the maximum area.
Show that, for any fixed perimeter , the maximum-area window of this shape has .
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A ship travels on a bearing of , then on a bearing of , where .

For , find the ship's distance from its starting point after the two legs.
Explain why the answer to part (a)(i) is independent of .
Find the value of for which the final position of the ship is due east of its starting point.
For the value of found in part (b), determine the distance east of the starting point. If you did not obtain a value for , use .
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A running track is made from two parallel straight sections of length metres joined by two semicircular ends of radius metres. The inside lane has total length . A second lane is formed at a constant distance metres outside the inside lane.

Show that .
Show that the area enclosed by the inside lane is .
If the straight sections must each be at least long, determine the maximum possible enclosed area.
Show that the outer lane is longer than the inside lane by , independent of and .
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The points , and form the base of a triangular pyramid. The vertex is , where . It is given that .
Show that triangle is equilateral.
Find .
Find the volume of the pyramid.
Find the angle between and the plane .
Determine .
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A right circular cone has base radius and perpendicular height . A plane parallel to the base cuts the cone so that the radius of the smaller cone above the cut is . The smaller cone is removed, leaving a frustum with both circular ends exposed.

Find the slant height of the original cone.
Find the slant height of the frustum.
Find the volume of the frustum.
Find the total external surface area of the frustum.
Let be the angle between a slant edge of the original cone and its base plane. Determine .
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An annular sector is the region between two concentric circular arcs and two radial line segments. An annular sector has inner radius , outer radius and angle radians. Its perimeter is and its area is .

Show that the perimeter is .
Show that the area is .
Show that satisfies .
Find the possible values of .
Find the corresponding values of .
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A right rectangular-based pyramid has base , where and . The vertex is vertically above the centre of the base. Each slant edge has length . Let be the midpoint of and the midpoint of .
Find .
Find the height of the pyramid.
Find and .
Find the total surface area of the pyramid.
Find the volume of the pyramid.
Determine .
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Two delivery drones follow straight-line paths in three-dimensional space, where coordinates are measured in kilometres. Their paths are modelled by
Find the acute angle between the two paths.
Show that the paths do not intersect.
Find the shortest distance between the two paths.
Suppose instead that both drones use the same time parameter , with positions on and obtained by putting and . Determine their minimum separation for .
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The points , and lie on a plane . A point has coordinates . The line passes through and has direction vector .
Find a vector normal to .
Show that an equation of is .
Find the perpendicular distance from to and hence find the volume of tetrahedron .
The line passes through and has direction vector .
Find the point where intersects .
Find the acute angle between and .
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A submarine travels in a straight line with position vector
where is measured in hours and distances are measured in kilometres. A listening station is at .
Find an expression for the square of the distance from the submarine to at time .
Determine the minimum distance from the submarine to .
The submarine is detected whenever it is within of . Determine the time interval during which it is detected.
Find the angle that the submarine's path makes with the horizontal plane.
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A right circular cone has base radius and perpendicular height . A plane parallel to the base cuts the cone, and the smaller cone above the cut is removed. Let be the height of the smaller cone removed.

Write down the radius of the smaller cone in terms of .
The volume of the smaller cone removed is of the volume of the original cone. Show that .
Find the height and the top radius of the frustum.
Find the total exposed surface area of the frustum, including both circular ends.
Find the angle between a slant edge of the original cone and its base plane.
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A designer makes a badge in the shape of a minor or semicircular circular segment. The boundary consists of a chord and the corresponding arc. The total length of the boundary is fixed at . Let the radius of the circle be and let the angle subtended by the arc at the centre be radians, where .

Write down expressions for the arc length and chord length in terms of and .
Show that .
Show that the area of the badge is
Use a GDC to determine the value of that maximizes the area of the badge, and find this maximum area.
For the maximum-area badge, determine the radius of the circle.
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A right circular cone contains a sphere of radius tangent to the base and to the curved surface of the cone. In an axial cross-section, the sphere appears as the incircle of an isosceles triangle. The volume of the cone is . Let be the base radius, the height and the slant height of the cone.

Show that .
Write down an equation involving and using the volume of the cone.
Show that .
Find the two possible heights of the cone.
Compare the total surface areas of the two cones.
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