Homework Help: Help: geometry

Posted by BWB on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 12:23am.

The length of the longer leg of a 30°– 60°– 90° triangle with hypotenuse length 4 is _____

I do not understand how to figure this out.

Help: geometry - Reiny, Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7:05am
The sides of the 30°-60°-90° are in the ratio of
1 : √3 : 2

so yours is a : b : 4

b/√3 = 4/2
b = 2√3

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