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To: jsh3180

You can set it up as a ratio problem and solve it that way. I can’t remember sines and tangents and cotangents.

4 posted on 08/02/2011 6:49:01 PM PDT by SuzyQue

To: SuzyQue

S=O/H C=A/H T=O/A

Simple Trig Functions above. If you know the angle and one side length then you are fat.

Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse

Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse

Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent

You can do quite a lot with this and a little imagination.

47 posted on 08/02/2011 7:39:54 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)

To: SuzyQue

>> “You can set it up as a ratio problem and solve it that way.” <<

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If that were true, books of trig tables wouldn’t have cost $50 when I was in High School! :o)

54 posted on 08/02/2011 7:45:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)

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