Homework Help: geometry

Posted by chris on Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 2:18pm.

If the smaller leg of a 30-60-90 triangle is 4 m, what are the lengths of the longer leg and the hypotenuse?

geometry - Damon, Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 2:20pm
ratios:
1, sqrt 3, 2

4, 4 sqrt 3, 8
geometry - Henry, Monday, January 3, 2011 at 6:05pm
hyp. = 4 / sin30 = 8m.

tan30 = Y/X,
tan30 = 4/X,
X = 4/tan30 = 6.93m.

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