3 years ago

The sine and cosine of one of the acute angles in a right triangle are equal. What is the tangent of the angle?

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1 answer:

Gnoma [55]3 years ago

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Since tan(x) = sin(x)/cos(x), if sin(x) = cos(x) then tan(x) must be 1.

You can even reason that the acute angle is 45° and sin(x)=cos(x) = $\frac12\sqrt2$ .

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