Right triangles are a triangle where one angle of the triangle is 90 degrees but the sides of the triangles have different ratios that you can use to figure out more about your triangle

There are three ratios that you can use for your triangle

Sine ratio

Co-sine ratio

Tangent ratio

(all of these can be put into -1, for a different use)

Another thing that is very important is soh cah toa

Our sine ratio, takes the opposite side, and the hypotenuse, and this is how we find our sine ratio. for example you have a triangle where it gives us a hypotenuse length of 30, and a opposite side length of 17, then we would simply be doing 17 divided by 30.

our co sine ratio, is when we take our adjacent side and we divide it by our hypotenuse. so this means that we would be putting adjacent over hypotenuse as well. It is basically just like sine ratio, except we are using the adjacent side now

Our tangent ratio involves the opposite side, and our adjacent side. In this case with our tangent ratio, we will be putting the opposite side on top, and adjacent will remain on the bottom.

When I mentioned SOH CAH TOA, this is a acronym to help us remember the order of our right triangle operations. S in SOH stands for sine, O in SOH stands for opposite and of course H stands for the hypotenuse. CAH is our co-sine ratio, because the C stands for co- A stands for adjacent and H stands for hypotenuse. I am guessing that you may know what TOA means. If not, it represents our tangent ratio.

I chose this topic for my blog post because I felt like it was a topic that I understood and I could communicate and explain fairly well.