Question

GEOMETRY HELP PLEASE(:
Use △DEF, shown below, to answer the question that follows.

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Triangle DEF where angle E is a right angle. DE measures x; DF measures 55; angle F measures 49 degrees.

What is the value of x rounded to the nearest hundredth? Type the numeric answer only in the box below.

Answer 1

@jim_thompson5910 Help me with this one?

Answer 2

are you familiar with trig functions?

Answer 3

Not really.
I did it a way and got 41.5085. Am I correct?

Answer 4

how did you get that? I'm getting something close to that but I'm using the sine function

Answer 5

Well I used an online scientific calculator. So it's SOH so X/55. 49 sin = .7547
My teacher taught me to either multiply or divide and this time I multiplied by 55 and got 41.5085.

Answer 6

good you're doing the same thing I'm doing

Answer 7

Ah okay, thank you I just wanted to know if I was doing it right(:.

Answer 8

now round tot he nearest hundredth to get...???

Answer 9

45.51?

Answer 10

good

Answer 11

41.51, hehe you missed it :P.

Answer 12

lol yeah i'm not thinking

Answer 13

pesky 5 should be a 1...

Answer 14

Lol yeah it was a typo :P well thank you(:

Answer 15

but yeah you have it

Answer 16

yw