Worksheet 21: Circles, Angles and Angular Movement

Grade 10 Technical Mathematics

1. What is a radian?

2. For each of the following:

i) Find the circumference of the circle.

ii) Find the area of the circle.

iii) Find the ratio of the diameter of the circle to the area of the circle.

a) A circle with radius 7mm.

b) A circle with diameter 18cm

c) A circle with a radius of 3m.

d) A circle with a radius of 1.5cm.

e) A circle with a diameter of 7.6 mm.

3. What do you notice about the ratio you found in each of the circles in question 2?

4. Convert the following measurements in degrees to radians.

a) 50° b) 90° c) 120°

d) 45° e) 30° f) 180°

g) 60° h) 65° i) 67°

j) 99° k) 15° l) 12°

3 31 4
a) 4
𝜋 rad b) 60
𝜋 rad c) 15
𝜋 rad

1 7
d) 2
𝜋 rad e) 2𝜋 rad f) 20
𝜋 rad

11 7 1
g) 1 20 𝜋 rad h) 1 30 𝜋 rad i) 2 2 𝜋 rad

37 11 23
j) 45
𝜋 rad k) 2 36 𝜋 rad l) 1 36 𝜋 rad

6. Convert the following degrees to degrees and minutes:

a) 43.1025° b) 57.376° c) 49.344°

d) 80.236° e) 188.272° f) 497.15°

g) 72.709° h) 83.424° i) 508.113°

j) 30.21° k) 371.84° l) 19.44°

7. Convert the following degrees and minutes to degrees and then to radians.

a) 391° 10’ 12” b) 144° 8’ 24” c) 328° 19’ 12”

d) 23° 8’ 0” e) 40° 32’ 24” f) 63° 20’ 38.4”

g) 90° 38’ 24” h) 217° 13’ 48” i) 79° 30’ 0”

j) 96° 42’ 25” k) 2° 27’ 22” l) 157° 5’ 31.2”

8. Convert the following radians to degrees and minutes.

19 199 19
a) 2 120 𝜋 rad b) 1 360 𝜋 rad c) 300
𝜋 rad

109 119
d) 250
𝜋 rad e) 4.231 rad f) 225
𝜋 rad

g) 2.398 rad h) 12.807 rad i) 1.0234 rad

j) 3.635 rad k) 4.208 rad l) 0.777 rad

a) circumference b) center c) chord

d) secant e) segment f) sector

g) diameter h) radius i) arc

j) tangent

10. Simplify the following:

3
a) sin 45° + cos 2 𝜋 b) tan 𝜋 − cos 30°
4

1
c) sin2 𝜋 − cos 2𝜋 + tan 30° d) cos 60° + sin 3 𝜋

11. A can with a radius of 3cm, is marked with a dot. The can is placed so that the dot makes a
90° angle with the floor and rolled across a distance of 32cm. At what angle will the dot be
relative to the floor once the can has stopped rolling?

12. A kitten climbs up the tire of a car. The car tire has a diameter of 54 cm and the kitten stopped
at an angle of 175° from the bottom of the tire in an anticlockwise direction. How far did the
kitten climb assuming that the kitten started at the bottom of the tire and crawled around it?

13. A skaters’ half pipe is installed at the mall. If the half pipe has a diameter of 10m, how far
would a skater skate from the top of the one end of the pipe to the other side of the pipe?

14. A car travels at 125 km/h. If the tire has a diameter of 70cm, how many radians per second is
the tire moving at?