Solving Right Triangles

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• How do you find leg length, BC, to the nearest tenth if in a right triangle ABC, the hypotenuse #AB=15# and angle #A=35º#?
• How do you solve right triangles using a graphing calculator?
• What are inverse trigonometric functions and when do you use it?
• How do you find the missing angles when the sides of a right triangle are given?
• What is Solving Right Triangles?
• How do you find all the missing angles, if you know one of the acute angles of a right triangle?
• How do you know what trigonometric function to use to solve right triangles?
• What will be the length of the shadow of the tower, correct to the nearest meter, on a day that the the angle of elevation of the sun is 50 deg given that the tallest freestanding structure in the world is the 553 meter high?
• What is the angle θ of the ramp if monster truck drives off a ramp in order to jump on to a row of cars where the ramp's height is 8 feet and horizontal length of 28 feet?
• How do I find the sides of a right triangle using only the trig functions sin cos and tan?
• Suppose the sun casts a shadow off a 35-foot building. If the angle of elevation to the sun is 60 degrees, how long is the shadow?
• A water tower is located 415 feet from a building. From a window in the building, an observer notes that the angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 37° and that the angle of depression to the bottom of the tower is 21°. How tall is the tower?
• A ship is anchored off a long straight shoreline that runs north and south. From two observation points 15 mi apart on shore, the bearings of the ship are N 31 degrees E and S 53 degrees E. What is the shortest distance from the ship to the shore?
• If a ladder is leaning against a building at a specified angle with a specified number of feet between the bottom of the ladder and the base of the building, what formula do I use to find the length of the ladder?
• How do you find the the angle of elevation of the sun if at 10 am on april 26, 2000, a building 300 feet high casts a shadow 50 feet long?
• If a support cable for a 65m tower is to make at 71-degree angle with the ground, then how long should the cable be, and how far from the base of the tower should the cable to anchored?
• A security camera in a neighborhood bank is mounted on a wall 9 ft above the floor. What angle of depression should be used if the camera is to be directed to a spot 6 ft. above the floor and 12 ft. from the wall?
• If you have a right triangle, the hypotenuse is 17m the adjacent side is 15m and the opposite side is 8m what is the angle between the opposite side and hypotenuse?
• A telephone pole is 28 feet tall. A wire is stretched from the top of the pole to a point on the ground that is 5 feet from the bottom of the pole. How long is the wire?
• From eye level, 1.2m above the ground, it is possible to see the top of a building just over the top of a tree when standing 18.0 away from the tree. If the tree is 13.6m tall and the building is 32.8m from the tree, how tall is the building?
• A rectangle has dimensions 5.5cm by 2.8cm, how do you determine the measures of the angles at the point where the diagonals intersect?
• In triangle ABC, AB = 6cm, BC = 13cm and CA = 9cm, how do you find the value of cos BAC as a fraction in its lowest terms?
• Given: triangle ABC, median segment AD, AD=1/2 BC how do you prove Triangle ABC is a right triangle, and segment BC is its hypotenuse?
• How does soh cah toa apply to a right triangle?
• How do you remember soh cah toa?
• A pilot observes the measure of the angle of depression of a marker to be 36 degrees. the plane is 2000m above the ground. How Far from the marker is the point on the ground directly beneath the plane?
• From the top of a building 30 ft tall, the angle of depression to the foot of a building across the street is 60 degrees and the angle of depression to the top of the same building is 70 degrees. How tall is the building?
• How do you find the measures of the angles of an isoscles triangle whose sides are 6,6,and 8?
• From point 135 feet from the base of a tree, the angle from ground level to the top of the tree is 49* (degrees), how do you find the height of the tree?
• What is the angle of elevation of the sun when a tree 7.52 m tall casts a shadow of 11.4 m long?
• An underground parking lot is being constructed 8 m below ground level. If the exit ramp is to rise at a 15 degree angle, how long will the ramp be?
• A helicopter is flying at an altitude of 1200°m. The angle of elevation from the tower on the ground to the plane measures 36°. How far is the building to the plane?
• A man is 1.65 m tall and standing 28 m away from a tree found that the angle of elevation of the top of the tree was 32°. How do you find the height of the tree?
• A television antenna casts a shadow that is 75.0 m long. If the angle of elevation of the sun is 39 degrees, how do you calculate how high above the ground a bird perched on the top of the antenna is?
• How do you solve the right triangle if a=3.0cm, b=2.6cm, C=90°?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC if a=32m, A=46?
• How do you solve the right triangle #ABC# if #a=20#m, #B=21^@#?
• In triangle ABC, AC=10.4, CB=x andAB=12 (hypotenuse), how do you find BC, m<A, and m<B?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC if b=120m, A=12?
• A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 2.70 m, and one of its angles is 28.0°. What are the lengths of the other sides?
• How do you solve the right triangle a=117 ft, b = 16.35 ft?
• How do you find the side lengths for a right triangle where only the angles of 90, 18, and 72 degrees are given?
• How do you solve the right triangle give b=1.83 c=3.35?
• How do you solve the triangle given A=60°, a=9, c=10?
• How do you solve the triangle given C=85°20', a=35, c=50?
• How do you solve the triangle given A=110°, a=125, b=100?
• How do you solve the triangle given B=72°30', a=105, c=64?
• One leg of a right triangle is 5 times as long as the other leg, the length of the hypotenuse is the square root of 416, what is the length of each leg?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC (where C=90 degree) when A=31.5 degree, B=29.7 ft?
• How do you solve the right triangles: c=78.1cm, α=59⁰ and a=46.8 ft, α=86⁰ ?
• In the right triangle ABC, angle C equals 90 degrees. If angle B is 63 degrees, what is the measure of angle A?
• In the right triangle ABC, angle C equals 90 degrees, if angle B is 63 degrees, what is the measure of angle A?
• The first triangle has a hypotenuse length of 12 and a 90 degree and 20 degree angle, how do you solve the triangle?
• A sailor was in a boat that was 250 feet from the bottom of a lighthouse. Looking at the top of the lighthouse, the angle of elevation is 60 degrees. How do you find the height of the lighthouse is the tangent of 60 degrees = 1.73?
• Juanito is flying a kite at the park and realizes that all 500 feet of string are out. Margie measures the angle of the string with the ground by using her clinometer and finds it to be 42.5 degrees. How high is Juanito's kite above the ground??
• A guy wire supports a tower. The wire forms an angle of 57 degrees with level ground. The wire is anchored to the ground 16.5m away from the base of the tower. How long is the guy wire?
• The hypotenuse of a right triangle measures 9 inches, and one of the acute angles measures 36 degrees. What is the area of the triangle?
• From the top of a cliff 50m high Lana can see a ship 200m out to sea. What is the angle of depression from the cliff to the boat?
• In triangle CAT, the measure of angle C= 90 degrees, AC =5, CT=12, and AT=13, What is the cosine of angle T?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given A = 33°, a = 19, b = 14?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given B = 23.7°, C = 123.3°, c ≈ 17.5?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given A = 61°, a = 17, b = 19?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given b=13.22, c=10.00, B=25°57°?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given B=31°, a=26.3, b=14.1?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given A= 40 degrees, C= 70 degrees, a=20?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given B = 45 degrees, angle c = 95 degrees and side AB = 5 units?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a = 4, b = 7, and c = 6?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a=5 b=11 c=8?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given A= 20 degrees C= 104 degrees and c=9?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given A = 43 degrees , a = 12, b = 17?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given b=14, c=12.2, C=51 degrees?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given fC = 90 degrees, B = 20 degrees, and b= 10 ?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a= 15.0cm, b= 12.0cm, c=10.0cm?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a=9.3 cm, b = 5.7 cm, c = 8.2 cm?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a = 42.9 m, b = 37.6 m, c = 62.7 m?
• How to find the third side of a isosceles triangle? I have the length of the two other legs, which are both 15?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC if A=80 Degrees, B=10 Degrees, and C=90 Degrees and a=10?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given Side a = 12, Side b = 15, Side c = 10?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given Side a = 8, Side b = 10, Side c = 5?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given Side a = 4, Side b = 5, Side c = 6?
• Given right Triangle ABC, Angle B = 60, C = 45 and perimeter = 12cm, find the length of all three sides?
• How do you find the other sides of a right triangle if the hypotenuse = 5 and the other sides =x, and the other two sides are also equilateral?
• In a right triangle, one angle is 23.8 degrees and the length of the adjacent side (not the hypotenuse) is 43.2 cm, how do you find the length of the other side?
• In triangle ABC, measure of angle A=32 a=12 and b=10, how do you find the measures of the missing angles and side of triangle A?
• How to find two missing sides of a Right Triangle with a right angle and a 50 degree angle if the hypotenuse is #2sqrt2#?
• At certain a certain time of the day a post, 4m tall casts a shadow of 1.8m. What is the angle of elevation of the sun at that time?
• A triangle has one 90 degrees angle and from there one leg is 10.25 long and the other leg is 7.75 long, what are the degrees for the other two angles?
• From the top of a lighthouse 55 ft above sea level, the angle of depression to a small boat is 11.3 degrees. How far from the foot of the lighthouse is the boat?
• A lamppost tilts toward the sun at a 2 degree angle from the vertical and casts a 25-foot shadow. The angle from the tip of the shadow to the top of the lamp post is 45 degrees. How do you find the length of the lamp post?
• How do you solve the right triangle B = 72°, b = 12, c = 8?
• How do you find two missing sides of a Right Triangle with a right angle and a 50 degree angle and the hypotenuse is 2sqrt2?
• How do you find the missing side of the right triangle with legs: a = 5, b = 12?
• How do you solve the right triangle if the hypotenuse is 12 cm long and opposite to that is x and in between the two sides is an angle of 28 degrees?
• How do you find an angle of a triangle with sides b=12 a=8 c=5 (right triangle)?
• How do you solve the right triangle if you are given a triangle ABC, segment AB is 14, measure of angle B is 90 and measure of angle C is 64?
• How do you solve the triangle if it has legs with lengths of 18 and 28 and there is a 90 degree angle, X and Y are the other two angles?
• How do you solve the triangle if it has hypotenuse 18, the opposite angle is the height, and the adjacent meets the hypotenuse at a 35 degree angle?
• How do you solve for the unknown lengths and angle measures of triangle ABC where angle C = 90 degrees, angle B = 23 degrees and side a = 24?
• How do you solve for the unknown lengths and angle measures of triangle ABC where angle C = 90 degrees, a = 9 and angle A = 41?
• How do you solve for the unknown lengths and angle measures of triangle ABC where angle C = 90 degrees, a = 24 and b = 5?
• How do you solve for the unknown lengths and angle measures of triangle ABC where angle C = 90 degrees, c = 10 and angle A = 30?
• How do you solve for the unknown lengths and angle measures of triangle ABC where angle C = 90 degrees, c = 21 and angle B = 49?
• How do you solve for the unknown lengths and angle measures of triangle ABC where angle C = 90 degrees, a = 72 and angle A = 59?
• How do you find the remaining trigonometric ratios if #sectheta= -1.5# and #pi/2 < theta< pi#?
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• From a distance of 1220 feet from a spotlight, the angle of elevation to a cloud base is 42°, how do you find the height of the cloud base to the nearest foot?
• From a distance of 50 feet from the base of a building, the angle of elevation to the top of the building is 68°, how do you estimate the height of the building to the nearest foot?
• A straight trail with a uniform inclination of 11° leads from a lodge at an elevation of 700 feet to a mountain lake at an elevation of 5200 feet. What is the length of the trail (to the nearest foot)?
• How do you find the missing length of an isosceles triangle if the base = 8 Angle = 30?
• A Christmas decoration is in the shape of a square based pyramid. All edges in the pyramid have a measurement of 4cm how do you find angle a slant edge makes with the base?
• A Christmas decoration is in the shape of a square based pyramid. All edges in the pyramid have a measurement of 4cm how do you find the angle between a triangular face and the base?
• How do you find the general solution for #sinx = cos3x #?
• How do you find the general solution for #2sinx + 2/sinx = 5#?
• How do you find the solution for #cosx - 1/cosx = 5/6# for [-180,180]?
• How do you find the solution for #6 tan^2 x - 4 sin^2 x = 1# for [0,360]?
• How do you find the solution for #tan^2 A - 3tanA - 4 = 0# for [-90,0]?
• How do you find the exact value of #sin u = -sqrt(5) / 6# in quadrant IV?
• James bond is looking at the top of a tower, at a distance of 133 m. He is 1.6 m. tall and has to look about 25 degrees above eye level. How do you find the height of the tower?
• A ladder leans against a vertical wall & its 9 meters up the wall. If the ladder is at an angle of elevation 60 degrees to the horizontal, how do you calculate the length of the ladder?
• A ladder leans against a vertical wall & its 9 meters up the wall. If the ladder is at an angle of elevation 60 degrees to the horizontal, how do you calculate the distance the foot of the ladder is from the base of the wall?
• A ship travels 60 mi due east, then adjust its course 15° northward. After traveling 80 mi in that direction, how far is the ship from its point of departure?
• A roller coaster moves 85m horizontally, then travels 45m at an angle of 30 degrees above the horizontal. What is its displacement from its starting point?
• A triangle that is 3 units high, 4 units long, and has a hypotenuse of 5 units, how do you find the angles?
• A kite is flying at an angle of 42 degrees with the ground. All 70 meters of string have been let out. Ignoring the sag in the string, find the height of the kite to the nearest 10 meters?
• A flagpole 40 feet high stands on top of the a building. From a point in front of the store, the angle of elevation for the top of the pole is 54° 54', and the angle of elevation for the bottom of the pole is 47° 30'. How high is the building?
• How do you solve the right triangle given a = 11cm, b = 26cm?
• How do you solve the right triangle given a = 84cm, A=35 degrees?
• How do you solve the right triangle given B =12degrees, C=37degrees, c=12?
• How do you solve the right triangle given A=41degrees, a = 17, b=9?
• How do you solve the right triangle given A=65degrees, b= 10, c=9?
• How do you solve the right triangle given a=15,b=11, c=20?
• How do you solve the right triangle given# a=32m, A=46°#?
• How do you solve the right triangle given b=5.8cm, c=3.2cm, and angle A = 27 degrees?
• How do you solve the right triangle given B=71degrees and b=24?
• If an isosceles trapezoid has sides of lengths 5, 8, 5, and 14. How do you find the measure of the angle between one of the legs and the shorter base?
• How do you solve the right triangle given A = 28° 30' , b = 18.3?
• The Washing Monument is 555 feet high. If you stand one quarter of a mile, or 1320 feet, from the base of the monument and look to the top, find the angle of elevation to the nearest degree.?
• The water level in a hemispherical bowl of radius 12 inches is 4.6 inches. What angle can you tilt the bowl before the water begins to spill?
• How do you solve the right triangle given b = 4, B = 10 degrees?
• How do you solve the right triangle given b = 4, c = 6?
• How do I find the sides of a right triangle given a=5 and hyp=10?
• The regular polygon has side 9 m. How do you find each angle measure to the nearest tenth of a degree, each linear measure to the nearest tenth of a meter, and the square measure to the nearest square meter?
• At 10 am on april 26, 2000, a building 300 feet high casts a shadow 50 feet long. What is the angle of the elevation of the sun?
• Points A and B are 100 m apart and are on the same elevation as the foot of a building. The angles of elevation of the top of the building from points A and B are 21° and 32° respectively. How far is A from the building?
• From a point 450 ft from the base of a building, the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of a flagpole on top of the building have measures 60° and 55°. How do you find the height of the flagpole to two significant digits?
• The angle of elevation is 19°20' from a ship at sea to the top of a 159 ft lighthouse. How do you find, to three significant digits, the distance of the ship from the base of the lighthouse?
• How do you solve the right triangle given A = 61 deg 00'; b = 39.2cm?
• A plane rises from take-off and flies at an angle of 10 degrees with the horizontal runway. When it has gained 500 feet, how do you find the distance, to the nearest foot, the plane has flown?
• In triangle ABC, AB=7 , BC= 5 , AND AC= 2 sqrts of 6, C is the right angle, how do you find measure of angle B?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given 'a' is 7 m, and the angle 'A' is 22 degrees?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given a=12, b=8 and c=5?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given AB =4 , BC=1?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given 50mm, 13mm and 12mm?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given Angle A=60°, Angle C=90?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given Angle A=17°, Angle C=90?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given Side AB=3 Side BC=4?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given side b=105m and side c=139m?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given 12, 12 & 20 as sides?
• What are the angle measures of a 5-12-13 right triangle?
• In triangle ABC, how do you solve the right triangle given sides of length 37cm, 30cm and 30cm?
• In a right triangle, suppose one acute angle is Pi/3 and the length of the side adjacent to that angle is 12ft. How do you find the length of the hypotenuse?
• How do you solve the triangle given #A=60# degrees, #a=20((3)^(1/2)), b=40?#
• How do you solve the triangle given A= 30 degrees, b= 8.9 mi c= 6.0 mi?
• How do you solve the triangle given B =12degrees, C=37degrees, c=12?
• How do you solve a right triangle with side a = 490 feet and side b = 960 feet?
• How do you solve a right triangle with side B = 46° and side c = 30 feet?
• How do you solve a right triangle with side a = 400 feet and side b = 900 feet?
• How do you solve a right triangle with AB=6, BD=3, CE=5?
• The legs of a right triangle are 5cm and 12 cm long. How do you find the lengths, to the nearest tenth, of the segments into which the bisector of the right angle divides the hypotenuse?
• How do you solve the right triangle given A=52 degrees and B=8.4?
• How do you solve the right triangle given it is a 72-18-90 triangle. The hypotenuse side is x, the adjacent side is 8, and the angle in between them is 72?
• When the sun's angle of elevation is 30 degrees the shadow of a post is 6 feet longer than when the angle is 45 degrees. How do you find the height of the post?
• How do you solve the right triangle given a=3.5cm, b=1.1 cm, C=90 degrees?
• How do you solve the right triangle given b=1, c=2, and A= 120?
• For a 25 ft. ladder to reach a certain window, it must make an angle of 63 deg. with the ground. How do you find the angle that a 30 ft. ladder must make with the ground to reach the some window?
• A tree leans at an angle of 8.0 degrees from the vertical. From a point on level ground 7.0 m from the bottom of the tree, the angle of elevation to the top of the tree is 68 degrees. How tall is the tree?
• You are in a point on floor from where u see the top of a tree with an angle of 60º, then you walk backwards 10 meters and the angle is 30º. What is the tall of the tree and how do you get it?
• How would you find the angle of depression from the top of a lighthouse to a boat if the light house is 210 ft. tall and the ship is 3000 ft. west of the light house?
• The height of a vertical cone is 24.5cm. If the angle at the apex is 48º37'10", how do you find the length of the slant edge of the cone?
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• How do you find the length of x and y if there is a circle, x is the arc length, there is an angle of 120 degrees and y is the hypotenuse?
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• How do you solve the trig equation for which x is the missing side of a right triangle sin 34 degrees =x/7?
• Using a scientific calculator, how do you find the measure of the angle whose tangent value is 1.2799?
• The two shorter sides of a right triangle have the same length. The area of the right triangle is 7.07 square, what is the length of the triangle?
• If a,b, and c are the lengths of the sides of a right Triangle and a=2, b=5, how do you find c?
• Two sides of a right triangle, the adjacent and hypotenuse, are 3x and 5x, the perimeter is 84, find x?
• A person whose eye level is 1.5 meters above ground level looks at the top of a tree at an angle of #24^circ# above the horizontal. If the tree is 20 meters away, how tall is the tree?
• A quadrilateral A, B, C & D has sides 3, 5, 7 & 9 units long. FIND its greatest area?
• The tallest freestanding structure in the world is 553-m tall CN tower in toronto, ontario. Suppose that at a certain time of day it casts a shadow 1100m long on the ground. What is the angle of elevation of the sun at the time of day?
• Lookout station B is located 9 mi due east of station A. The bearing of a fire from A is S 19W and the bearing from B is S 39.833W. How do you determine the distance from the fire to B (to the nearest tenth of a mile)?
• A right triangle ABC where AC is the Hypotenuse. AB =4 , BC=1, how do you find the angle at point A?
• How do you calculate the size of an angle, given the three sides a=5, b=4, c=3?
• A right triangle has an angle of 22.5 degrees and adjacent side of 1.75". What is length of opposite side?
• Given a right triangle with a height of 5 a hypotenuse of 14, how do you find the angle measure of the two missing angle measures?
• Two perpendicular sides of a triangle are 5.53 m and 7.41 m long, respectively. How do you find the length of the third side of the triangle and the smallest angle?
• How do you find the smallest angle in a right angled triangle whose side lengths are 6cm, 13cm and 14 cm?
• A ladder 36m long rests against a wall, its foot being at a horizontal distance of 25m from the base of the wall. What angle does the ladder make with the ground?
• A ramp 20 ft. in length rises to a platform that is 18 ft. off the ground. How do you find x, the angle of elevation of the ramp?
• If the Angle is 5.04, and the hypotenuse is 20.61, how do you find the opposite leg by rearranging the sine formula?
• How do you find the missing sides and angles of a non-right triangle, triangle ABC, angle C is 115, side b is 5, side c is 10?
• A building casts a shadow 23 feet long when the angle of elevation of the sun is 52. How do you find the height of the building correct to the nearest integer?
• Given a right triangle with Angle A=25 deg, Angle C=90 Degrees, and knowing the length of the leg opposite angle A equals 4 inches, how do I find the length of the base leg of the triangle?
• How do you find the other sides and triangles given a right angled triangle with the Hypotenuse 15?
• The second angel of a triangular garden is 4times as large as the first. The third angel is 45 degrees less than the the sum of the other 2 angels. How do you find the measure of the third angle?
• How do you find the measures of the angles of an isosceles triangle if the measure of the vertex angle is 40 degrees less than the sum of the measures of the base angles?
• Given the radius of inscribed circle with the angles of the triangle, how do you find the sides given the circle is inscribed the triangle, the radius is 19, sides of triangle was not given only the angles, 17 degrees, 78 degrees, 85 degrees?
• A 90 degree angle triangle has one side a length of 26.1 meters, how to you find the lengths of the other sides?
• How do you find the angles of a right triangle given A is 6" tall, B is 12" long, that leaves C as 13.4164?
• How do you find the angles of a right triangle given Triangle ABC with AB=5√26 BC=5, CA=25 and angle BCA is 90 degrees?
• How do you find the third angle given 95°, 58°?
• How do you find the third angle of triangle given 130°, 27°?
• How do you find the third angle given 65°, 88°?
• How do you find the length of a line in a 90 degree triangle given one length is 6?
• How do you find the value of X and Y. Y is the hypotenuse, 5 is the adjacent side and X is the opposite side from Y, and in the triangle there is 30 degrees where X and Y lines meet?
• The Perimeter of a right angle Triangle is 12cm, if the hypotenuse is 5cm, how do you find the area and two sides of a triangle?
• How do you find out the length of the 3rd leg of a triangle if I already know 2 of 3 leg, where Leg1 is 48", Leg2 is 3"?
• A ship travels 60 miles due east, then adjusts it's course 15° northward. After traveling 80 miles in that direction, how far is the ship from it's point of departure?
• A right angled triangle with the hypotenuse is 28 cm and the two acute angles are 52 and 38. How do you find the two legs of the triangle?
• How do you find the length of #a# and #b# of a right triangle using angles of #A# and #B# and the distance from #c# to #C#? The angles of #A# and #B# are #45# degrees with #C# being #90# degrees and the distance from #C# to the hypotenuse (#c#) is #22^"#.
• In an equilateral triangle with a radius of 4, what is the area?
• How do you find two missing sides of a right triangle with a right angle and a 50 degree angle, the hypotenuse is 2√2?
• How do you find the angle of a right angled triangle when the hypotenuse and adjacent sides are given HYP = 14CM, ADJ = 6CM?
• Given a right triangle, let x be one of its acute angles. Suppose that the side opposite to angle x has length 15 and that the side adjacent to angle x has length 23. How do you find the approximate value of angle x in radians?
• A rectangle is 14 Cm wide and 48 cm long. How do you find the measure of the acute angle between its diagonals?
• In triangle ABC, the measures of angle B is three more than twice the measure of angle A, and the measure of angle C is two more than four times the measure of angle A. How can I find the measure of the angle in a triangle?
• How do you find the angle measure of the missing angle for a right triangle with one angle measure of 56 degrees?
• If a triangle has sides 6, 8, and 10, is it acute, right, or obtuse?
• Given an isosceles triangle with the tip is 110 degrees and two side are both 20 how do you find the base and the two angles by the base?
• How do you find the missing sides and angles in the right triangle, where a is the side across from angle A, b across from B, and c across from the right angle given a = 28, c = 42?
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• How do you determine the length of x in a right triangle when some of the information given is not part of the right triangle in question, but instead part of an outside acute angle? (Image included)
• Is angle of elevation always measured from the HORIZONTAL AXIS?
• Is angle of elevation always measured from the HORIZONTAL AXIS?
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• How do you find the numeric value of angle B for triangle ABC given A=15 and C=50?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle C for triangle ABC given A=110 and B=31?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle A and B for triangle ABC given C=24, A=x and B=2x?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle A, B, and C for triangle ABC given A=x and B=C=4x?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle B for triangle ABC with C being the right angle given A=45?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle A and B for triangle ABC with C being the right angle given A=x and B=2x?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle A and B for triangle ABC with C being the right angle given A=x and #B=x^2#?
• How do you find the numeric value of angle A and B for triangle ABC with C being the right angle given A=x and #B=x^2#?
• A car goes 24 miles due north then 7 miles due east. What is the straight distance between the car's starting point and end point?
• One end of a rope is attached to the top of a pole 100 ft high. If the rope is 150 ft long, what is the maximum distance along the ground from the base of the pole to where the other end can be attached?
• How do you prove that the hypotenuse of the longest side in every right triangle #a^2+b^2>a^2#?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a=5, b=12?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given c=6, B=35?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given b=2, A=8?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a=2, c=7?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a=3, A=26?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given b=3, B=26?
• How do you solve the right triangle ABC given a=2, B=8?
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• From a 50-foot-tall Lookout tower, a park ranger sees a fire at an angle of depression of 1.6° how far is the fire from the tower?
• Joe is flying a kite. The kite string makes an angle of 57 degrees with the ground. If Joe is standing 100 feet from the point on the ground directly below the kite, find the length of the kite string?
• From the top of a lighthouse 210 feet high, the angle of depression of a boat is 27 degrees. How do you find the distance from the boat to the foot of the lighthouse where the lighthouse was built at sea level?
• A 20-foot ladder leaning against a building makes an angle of 60° with the ground. How far from the base of the building is the foot of the ladder?
• Mayfield High School's flagpole is 15 feet high. Using a clinometer, Tamara measure an angle of 11.3 to the top of the pole. Tamara is 62 inches tall. How far from the flagpole is Tamara standing?
• The length of a tree's shadow is 20 feet when the angle of elevation to the sun is 40 degrees. How tall is the tree?
• A 5m long ladder leans against a wall, with the top of the ladder being 4m above the ground. What is the approximate angle that the ladder makes with the ground?
• The angle of elevation of a cliff from a fixed point #A# is #theta#. After going up a distance of #'k' m# towards the top of the cliff, at an angle of #phi#, it is found that the angle of elevation is #alpha#. Find height of cliff in terms of #k#?
• The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 52 in. One leg of the triangle is 8 in. more than twice the length of the other. What is the perimeter of the triangle?
• A 21-foot ladder is leaning against a building. The base of the ladder is 7 feet from the base of a building. To the nearest degree, what is the measure of the angle that the ladder makes with the ground?
• How do you find the geometric mean of 4 and 64?
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• Question #23a92
• Two buildings are 200ft apart. The height of the taller building is 135ft. The angle of depression from the top of the taller building to the top of the shorter building is 7 degrees. How do you find the height of the shorter building to the nearest foot?
• A plane is 120 miles north and 85 miles east of an airport. If the pilot wants to fly directly back to the airport, what angle should be taken?
• Question #c26e4
• The height of the Empire State Building is 1250 feet tall. Your friend, who is 6 feet 3 inches tall, is standing nearby and casts a shadow that is 33 inches long. What is the length of the shadow of the Empire State Building?
• Question #b5c35
• The kite string is 65 m long and makes an angle of 32° with the ground. How do you calculate the vertical height of the kite to the nearest meter?
• Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if a=4, b=3, how do you find c?
• Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if a=6, b=8, how do you find c?
• Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if a=8, c=17, how do you find b?
• Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if a=2, c=6, how do you find b?
• Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if b=12, c=13, how do you find a?
• Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if b=10, c=26, how do you find a?
• In a right triangle ABC, how do you find b if a=2, c=5 and #C=90^circ#?
• How do you find the remaining sides of #30^circ-60^circ-90^circ# triangle if the longest side is 6?
• An escalator in a department store makes an angle of #45^circ# with the ground. How long is the escalator if it carries people a vertical distance of 24 feet?
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• Question #88157
• From a rescue helicopter 1800 m above the ocean, the angles of depression of two shipwreck survivors are 60 and 40 degrees. Calculate the distance between the survivors. How do i answer this question?
• To calculate the height of a building, Kevin measures the angle of elevation to the top as 52(degrees). He then walks 20 m closer to the building and measures the angle of elevation as 60(d). Calculate the height of the building. (Using Sine Rule)?
• Question #f528f
• A flagpole sits on the top of a building. Angles of elevation are measured from a point #500# feet away from the building. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is #38˚# and to the top of the flagpole #42˚#. How high is the flagpole?
• A wire in the shape of Y is hanged from two points #A# and #B#, #8# feet apart. The lower end of wire reaches a point #10# feet from #AB#. What is the shortest possible length of the wire?
• Question #878d8