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How do you find an angle of a right-angle triangle when you have all the lengths - using trigonometry?
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(the side opposite the angle) divided by (the side adjacent to the angle) = tangent of the angle
(the side opposite the angle) divided by (the hypotenuse of the triangle) = sine of the angle
(the side adjacent to the angle) divided by (the hypotenuse of the triangle) = cosine of the angle
Once you have the sine OR the cosine OR the tangent of the angle, you can get the measurement of the angle on a scientific calculator, or look it up in a table of trig functions in a book.
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What is finding all missing side lengths and angle measures of a right triangle?
The study is called trigonometry.
How do you find the length of a side of a triangle which is not a right angled triangle given two lengths and an angle?
Depending on which sides and angle are known you would use one of the trigonometry functions.
How do you get from units of length to units of angle?
if the two lengths are not touching, carefully move one of them until they are. measure the length between the outside ends of the two lengths. this makes a triangle. An angle can be calculated by using trigonometry functions on two of the lengths of a triangle. these can be simple or rather complex
When given all three side lengths of a triangle but none of the angle measures you can solve for all angle measures using?
With trigonometry by using the cosine rule
What triangle has one right angle and all three sides are different lengths?
A triangle with a right angle and different lengths for sides is a right, scalene triangle.
How can you use ratios of the side lengths to find the angle measures of the acute angles in a right triangle?
By using trigonometry that is applicable to a right angle triangle.
What is finding all missing side lengths and angle measures of a right triangle?
The study is called trigonometry.
How do you find the length of a side of a triangle which is not a right angled triangle given two lengths and an angle?
Depending on which sides and angle are known you would use one of the trigonometry functions.
How do you get from units of length to units of angle?
if the two lengths are not touching, carefully move one of them until they are. measure the length between the outside ends of the two lengths. this makes a triangle. An angle can be calculated by using trigonometry functions on two of the lengths of a triangle. these can be simple or rather complex
When given all three side lengths of a triangle but none of the angle measures you can solve for all angle measures using .?
With trigonometry by using the cosine rule
When given all three side lengths of a triangle but none of the angle measures you can solve for all angle measures using?
With trigonometry by using the cosine rule
How do you find the measure of an angle to the nearest degree?
You can measure it. Or you can measure some other quantities (for examples, the lengths of the sides of a triangle), and calculate the angle using trigonometry.
What is the length of the hypotenuse and its smallest angle of a triangle whose other lengths are 2.34 cm and 1.64 cm?
If it has an hypotenuse then it must be a right angle triangle then by using Pythagoras' theorem its hypotenuse is 2.86 cm rounded and by using trigonometry its smallest angle is 35.02 degrees rounded.
What triangle has one right angle and all three sides are different lengths?
A triangle with a right angle and different lengths for sides is a right, scalene triangle.
How do you solve the hypotenuse of triangle APC if angle P is a right angle?
By using trigonometry or using Pythagoras' theorem for a right angle triangle.
90 degree angle?
rightangle
What is a triangle with one 90 degree angle?
A right triangle is a triangle in which one angle is a right angle (that is, a 90-degree angle). The relation between the sides and angles of a right triangle is the basis for trigonometry.
