Question

A circus artist is climbing from the ground along a rope stretched from the top of a vertical pole and tied at the ground. The height of the pole is 10 m and angle made by the top with ground level is 60°.
(i) Calculate the distance covered by the artist in climbing to the top of the pole.
(ii) Which mathematical concept is used in this problem?
(iii) What value is displayed by the artist?

Answer 1

(i) Clearly distance covered by the artist is equal to the length of the rope AC.
Let AB be the vertical pole of height 10 m.
It is given that ∠ACB = 60°
Thus, in right angled ∆ABC.

(ii) Trigonometric ratios of an acute angle of right angled triangle.
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