Question

How can the cotangent of an angle in a right triangle be calculated?


by dividing the hypotenuse by the adjacent side

by dividing the adjacent side by the opposite side

by dividing the adjacent side by the hypotenuse

by dividing the hypotenuse by the opposite side

Answer 1

how would you find the tangent?

Answer 2

by dividing by the opposite?

Answer 3

opposite over...?

Answer 4

adjacent

Answer 5

right
now remember that cotangent is tangent upside-down, and you have your answer

Answer 6

ok, thanks

Answer 7

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/pdf/Trig_Cheat_Sheet.pdf
for future reference