Triangle A B C is shown. Angle A B C is a right angle. An altitude is drawn from point B to point D on side A C to form a right
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Answer:
∠°
Step-by-step explanation:
- The cosine of an angle is equal to the side adjacent to the angle over the hypotenuse, the longest side.
- With this in mind:
- We need to find the hypotenuse of this triangle. This is relativly easy to do with a right triangle; we can just use the Pythagorean Theorem.
- Pythagorean Theorem:
where
,
, and
are the 3 different sides of a right triangle.
- Our hypotenuse is
. Now we can finish solving for ∠
.
∠°
