I'm confused on how to solve a right triangle given only one side measurement and one interior angle.

Mathematics

1 answer:

SVEN [57.7K]2 years ago

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Answer:

You use trigonometry.

Step-by-step explanation:

You can use soh cah toa. Basically you pic one side and if the interior angle is opposite or next to it, you you soh, or cah, or toa, it's based on where the angle is.

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If two points known on the line AB in the coordinate plane is (7,15) and (18,42), calculate the following..

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Answer:

Slope = 27/11
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Step-by-step explanation:

Given :-

Two points are given to us .
The points are A(7,15) and B(18,42)

To Find :-

The slope of the line .
The length of line AB .

We can find the slope of the line passing through the points $( x_1,y_1)$ and $( x_2,y_2)$ as ,

$\implies m = \dfrac{ y_2-y_1}{x_2-x_{1}}$

Plug in the respective values ,

$\implies m = \dfrac{ 42-15}{18-7} \\\\\implies \boxed{ m = \dfrac{ 27}{11 }}$

Hence the slope of the line is 27/11 .

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We can find the distance between them by using the Distance Formula .

$\implies Distance =\sqrt{ (x_2-x_1)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2} \\\\\implies Distance =\sqrt{ (18-7)^2+(42-15)^2 } \\\\\implies Distance =\sqrt{ 11^2 + 27^2 } \\\\\implies Distance =\sqrt{ 121 + 729 } \\\\\implies Distance = \sqrt{ 850} \\\\\implies \boxed{ Distance = 29.15 \ units }$