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#2 Help Me ! » Trig Problem Help » 2021-05-26 07:38:16

Kage Suzuki
Replies: 2

In the diagram, tanC = 2.4. Find cos A.

                        C
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                        |
                        |
A____________B

(Pretend there's a line from A to C, and angle ABC is a right angle)

Right now, what I have is:

tan(C)=AB/BC=2.4

cos(A)=AB/AC

Could I have a hint as to how to solve this, please? Thanks in advance!

#3 Re: Help Me ! » Geometry help » 2021-05-26 06:19:35

I got it, thank you so much!

#4 Re: Help Me ! » Geometry help » 2021-05-26 02:01:25

Thank you for the help!

For the first one, I managed to solve for what AD is, but I'm stuck on getting the value of AE. I was thinking maybe I could use similar triangles (pretend the point at which DC and AE intersect is called O) DOE and AOC to solve for side AE, but I've been trying and I haven't been able to do that. Could you help?

For the second one, I got

, is that right? I found the circumference of the middle of the sphere to be just pi, and 1/4 of that is 1/4pi, and then you multiply that by 3.

Thanks in advance!

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