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Fora right angle triangle: cosine angle = adjacent/hypotenuse

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What are trig ratios?

Trig ratios or to give them their proper name are trigonometrical rations applicable to right angle triangles and they are tangent ratio, sine ratio and cosine ratio.


What is a sine ratio?

The Sine ratio is Sine(angle) = opposite side / hypotenuse side. This is written in 'short-hand' as Sin(angle) = o / h Similarly the cosine ratio is Cosine(angle) = adjacent side / hypotenuse side. Cos(angle) = a/h Similarly the tangent ratio is Tangent(angle) = opposite side /adjacent side. Tan(angle) = o/a NB THe sides refer to the sides of a right-angled triangle. NNB The angle referred to is NOT the right angle, but a selected angle from the other two angles.


What is the Cosine of 62 degrees?

The cosine of 62 degrees is approximately 0.4695. This value can be found using a scientific calculator or trigonometric tables. Cosine values represent the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse in a right triangle for the given angle.


What is The cosine of an angle equals the ratio of the?

The cosine of an angle in a right triangle is defined as the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to the length of the hypotenuse. Mathematically, it can be expressed as ( \cos(\theta) = \frac{\text{adjacent}}{\text{hypotenuse}} ). This relationship is fundamental in trigonometry and is used to find unknown side lengths or angles in right triangles.


What ratio correctly describes the cosine function?

The cosine of theta is adjacent over hypotenuse, given a right triangle, theta not being the 90 degree angle, adjacent not being the hypotenuse, and theta being the angle between adjacent and hypotenuse. In a unit triangle, i.e. in a unit circle circumscribed with radius one, and theta and the center of the circle at the origin, cosine of theta is X.

Related Questions

What is a cosine ratio?

In a right angle triangle it is: cosine ratio = adjacent/hypotenuse


The tangent of an angle equals the ratio of the?

Sine of the angle to its cosine.


The tanget of an angle equals the ratio of the?

Sine and the cosine of the angle.


What is the cosine ratio?

In a specific angle for a right triangle the cosine ratio is the ratio between the lengths of the adjacent side (side touching the angle) and the hypotenuse (longest side).


How is cosine defined?

In a right triangle, the cosine of an angle is defined as the ratio of the adjacent side of that angle to the hypotenuse.


What is the ratio that defines the cosine of an acute angle of the right angle?

It is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the hypotenuse.


What is the cosine function about?

The cosine function is mathematical equation to determine the adjacent angle of a triangle. The cosine of an angle is the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse: so called because it is the sine of the co-angle.


What are the 3 basic trig ratios and how do they work?

The three basic ratios are sine, cosine and tangent.In a right angled triangle,the sine of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side opposite the angle and the hypotenuse;the cosine of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side adjacent to the angle and the hypotenuse;the tangent of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side opposite the angle and the the side adjacent to the angle.


Why it is power fector of cos?

Power factor is the ratio of the angle between the voltage and current.In the power triangle cosine angle is the ratio between them...


What is a cosign in math?

If you mean cosine then it is angle ratio found in a right angle triangle which is adjacent/hypotenuse


Which angle length does cosine give you?

Sides have lenght, angles do not. Cosine is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. Cosine can be used to find either of these sides if the other is known.


What is the measure of an angle whose cosine ratio is known called?

Boot E.S. Maximus.