Week 5 – Math 10 – Finding a missing side of a triangle

Finding a missing side of a triangle

  • To find the missing side of a triangle you need to have the length on one side and an angle.
  • you name all the sides and find out if you need to use sin, cos or tang.
  • to make the equation you take the angle and put is after your sign then put equals sign for the variable and the length of the side.
  • depending on if the length is on the top of the fraction or not you will multiply or divide the length by the sign of the angle.
  • once you do this you will have your missing side.

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