3D Trigonometry
Worksheet
1
The diagram shows a cuboid PQRSTUVW .
PV = 17.2 cm
The angle between the line PV and the base TUVW of the cuboid is 43°. Calculate PT .
PT = .......................................... cm
(3 marks)
2 The diagram shows a cuboid ABCDEFGH .
EH = 9 cm, HG = 5 cm and GB = 6 cm.
Work out the size of the angle between AH and the plane EFGH .
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
(4 marks)
3 The diagram shows a triangular prism.
AF = 10 cm, AB = 24 cm and BC = 8 cm.
Angle FAB = angle ADC = angle BCD = 90°
Work out the size of the angle between the line BE and the plane ABCD .
Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
(3 marks)
4 The diagram shows cuboid ABCDEFGH .
For this cuboid
the length of AB : the length of BC : the length of CF = 4 : 2 : 3
Calculate the size of the angle between AF and the plane ABCD Give your answer
correct to one decimal place.
(3 marks)
5 The length of a diagonal of a cuboid is 20 cm
The diagonal makes an angle of 24° with the base.
The area of the base is 150 cm2
Work out the volume of the cuboid.
........................................ cm3
(3 marks)
6
ABCDEFGH is a cuboid. AB = 8 cm, BC = 5 cm and CG = 11 cm.
i) Calculate angle CAB.
Angle CAB = ................................................... [2]
ii) Calculate angle GAC.
Angle GAC = ................................................... [2]
(4 marks)
7
The diagram shows a cuboid.
AB = 8 cm, BC = 4 cm and CR = 5 cm.
Calculate the angle between the diagonal AR and the plane BCRQ.
(4 marks)
8 ABCD is a horizontal rectangular field.
A vertical pole, AE , is placed at the corner A of the field.
AE = 12 m AB = 18 m AD = 8 m
Calculate the size of the angle between EC and the plane ABCD Give your answer
correct to one decimal place.
(3 marks)
9 The diagram shows a right-angled triangular prism ABCDEF.
Length AD = 11 cm, length CD = 10 cm and length CF = 6 cm.
Calculate the exact length of AF.
........................................................cm
(4 marks)
10 ABCDEFGH is a cuboid.
AB = 7 .3 cm
CH = 8 .1 cm
Angle BCA = 48°
Find the size of the angle between AH and the plane ABCD . Give your answer correct
to 1 decimal place.
(4 marks)
1
The diagram shows cuboid ABCDEFGH of length 20 cm and width 5.5 cm.
The volume of the cuboid is 495 cm3 .
Find the angle between the line AG and the base of the cuboid ABCD .
(5 marks)
2
ABCDEFGH is a cuboid.
AB = 18 cm, BC = 7 cm and CG = 12 cm.
Calculate the angle that the diagonal AG makes with the base ABCD .
(4 marks)
3
The diagram shows a pyramid with a square base ABCD.
The diagonals AC and BD intersect at M.
The vertex V is vertically above M.
AB = 11 cm and AV = 18.6 cm.
Calculate the angle that AV makes with the base.
(4 marks)
4
The diagram shows a cuboid with dimensions 5.5 cm, 8 cm and 16.2 cm.
Calculate the angle between the line AB and the horizontal base of the cuboid.
(4 marks)
5
The diagram shows a triangular prism.
AB = 12 cm, BC = 6 cm, PC = 4 cm, angle BCP = 90° and angle QDC = 90°.
Calculate the angle between AP and the rectangular base ABCD.
(4 marks)
6 (a)
The diagram shows a prism ABCDEF.
The cross-section is a right-angled triangle BCD.
BD = 10 cm, BC = 5.2 cm and ED = 18 cm.
Calculate angle BEC.
Angle BEC = ...................................................
(4 marks)
(b) The point G lies on the line ED and GD = 7 cm.
Work out angle BGE.
Angle BGE = ................................................
(3 marks)
The diagram shows a field, ABCD, on horizontal ground.
There is a vertical post at C.
From B, the angle of elevation of the top of the post is 19°.
Find the height of the post.
. ................................................ m
(2 marks)
8 (a)
The diagram shows an open box ABCDEFGH in the shape of a cuboid.
AB = 20 cm, BC = 18 cm and AE = 16 cm.
A thin rod AGX rests partly in the box as shown.
The rod is 40 cm long.
Calculate GX, the length of the rod which is outside the box.
GX = ........................................... cm
(4 marks)
(b) Calculate the angle the rod makes with the base of the box.
(3 marks)
9 The diagram shows a cuboid ABCDEFGH .
AB = 7 cm, AF = 5 cm and FC = 15 cm.
Calculate the volume of the cuboid.
Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
(4 marks)
10 (a) The diagram shows a pyramid.
BCDE is a square with sides of length 10 cm.
The other faces of the pyramid are equilateral triangles with sides of length 10 cm.
Calculate the volume of the pyramid.
Give your answer in the form 2 cm3 where a and b are integers to be found.
b
(4 marks)
(b) Find the size of angle DAB.
(2 marks)
1
The diagram shows a pyramid with a square base ABCD of side length 8cm.
The diagonals of the square, AC and BD, intersect at M. V is vertically above M and VM =
10 cm.
Calculate the angle between VA and the base.
(4 marks)
2 The diagram shows a triangular prism.
The base, ABCD , of the prism is a square of side length 15 cm. Angle ABE and angle
CBE are right angles.
Angle EAB = 35°
M is the point on DA such that
DM:MA = 2:3
Calculate the size of the angle between EM and the base of the prism. Give your
answer correct to 1 decimal place.
(4 marks)
3 VABCD is a solid pyramid.
ABCD is a square of side 20 cm.
The angle between any sloping edge and the plane ABCD is 55°
Calculate the surface area of the pyramid.
Give your answer correct to 2 significant figures.
(5 marks)
4 VABCD is a square-based pyramid.
The horizontal base ABCD has side length 10 cm and centre M .
Angle VMA is 90°
Angle VAM is 68°
1
Volume of pyramid = × area of base × perpendicular height
3
Work out the volume of the pyramid.
. ................... cm3
(6 marks)
5 The diagram shows the prism ABCDEF with cross section triangle ABC.
Angle BEC = 40° and angle ACB is obtuse.
AC = 6 cm and CE = 13cm
The area of triangle ABC is 22 cm2
Calculate the length of AB.
Give your answer correct to one decimal place.
. ................. cm
(6 marks)
6
The diagram shows a prism with a rectangular base, ABFE. The cross-section, ABCD, is a
trapezium with AD = BC. AB = 8 cm, GH = 5 cm, BF = 12 cm and angle ABC = 70°.
The perpendicular from G onto EF meets EF at X.
i) Show that EX = 6.5 cm.
[1]
ii) Calculate AX.
AX = .............................................. cm [2]
iii) Calculate the angle between the diagonal AG and the base ABFE.
[2]
(5 marks)
7
ABCDEFGH is a cuboid.
AB = 8 cm, BC = 5 cm and CG = 11 cm.
Ivana has a pencil of length 13cm.
Does this pencil fit completely inside the cuboid?
Show how you decide.
(4 marks)
8
The diagram shows a pyramid with a square base ABCD.
DB = 8 cm.
P is vertically above the centre, X, of the base and PX = 5 cm.
Calculate the angle between PB and the base ABCD.
(3 marks)
9 The diagram shows a solid prism ABCDEFGH .
The trapezium ABCD , in which AD is parallel to BC, is a cross section of the prism.
The base ADEH of the prism is a horizontal plane.
ADEH and BCFG are rectangles.
The midpoint of BC is vertically above the midpoint of AD so that BA = CD .
AD = 37 cm GF = 28 cm DE = 24 cm
The perpendicular distance between edges AD and BC is 20 cm.
Calculate the size of the angle between AF and the plane ADEH . Give your answer
correct to one decimal place.
(3 marks)
10 The diagram shows a solid pyramid ABCDE with a horizontal base.
The base, BCDE , of the pyramid is a square of side 10 cm.
A of the pyramid is vertically above the centre O
The vertex of the base so that
AB = AC = AD = AE
The total surface area of the pyramid is 360 cm2
Work out the size of the angle between AC and the base BCDE . Give your answer
correct to 3 significant figures.
(6 marks)
11 (a) Alvin has a crate in the shape of a cuboid.
The crate is open at the top. The internal dimensions of the crate are 46cm long by 46cm
wide by 55cm high.
Alvin has a stick of length 95cm.
Alvin places the stick in the crate so that the shortest possible length extends out above
the top of the crate.
Calculate the length of the stick that extends out of the crate.
........................................................cm
(4 marks)
(b) Calculate the angle the stick makes with the base of the crate.
(3 marks)
