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Trigonometry help

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Original post by an_atheist
There's no question.


Here it is you was to quick! 🙂

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Original post by JackT2000
Here it is you was to quick! 🙂

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What's the question?
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What's the question?


The triangle on the left
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The triangle on the left


What about it?
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You need to find the Adjacent length?

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you can use Pythagoras' Theorem to find the third side ?

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Yes


It's a right angled triangle, use a^2+b^2=c^2 from pythagoras. or use the cosine rule.
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you can use Pythagoras' Theorem to find the third side ?

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True never thought of that so it would be A^2 + 41.9^2 = 65.3^2

I would then do 65.3^2 - 41.9^2 and then finally square root the sum of 65.3^2 - 41.9^2 ???
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True never thought of that so it would be A^2 + 41.9^2 = 65.3^2

I would then do 65.3^2 - 41.9^2 and then finally square root the sum of 65.3^2 - 41.9^2 ???


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Lol so is a = 50.1cm ??
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Lol so is a = 50.1cm ??


that looks OK

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