plumiTrigonometry in context: AQA A‑Level Maths questions
AQA A-Level Maths past-paper questions on E.11 Trigonometry in context, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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All 4 questions on Trigonometry in context, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 3, Q10 (10 marks): (a) Express 2 sin x + 5 cos x in the form R sin (x + α) where R > 0 and 0° ≤ α ≤ 90° [3 marks] 10 (b) In 2010, the water temperature at a beach could be modelle
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q12 (8 marks): One of the rides at a theme park is a room where the floor and ceiling both move up and down for 10p seconds. At time t seconds after the ride begins, the dista
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q9 (9 marks): A robotic arm which is attached to a flat surface at the origin O, is used to draw a graphic design. The arm is made from two rods OP and PQ, each of length d,
- November 2020, Paper 1, Q8 (7 marks): Mike, an amateur astronomer who lives in the South of England, wants to know how the number of hours of darkness changes through the year. On various days betwe
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