The moon forms a right triangle with the Earth and the sun during one of its phases, as shown below.
A scientist measures the angle x and the distance y between the Earth and the sun. Using complete sentences, explain how the scientist can use only these two measurements to calculate the distance between the moon and the sun.

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The moon forms a right triangle with the Earth and the sun during one of its phases, as shown below.
A scientist measures the angle x and the distance y between the Earth and the sun. Using complete sentences, explain how the scientist can use only these two measurements to calculate the distance between the moon and the sun.

ghazi · Answer

do you have any figure for this?

anonymous · Answer

if the angle"x" is inscribed between the line of thesun and the moon line:then "the requried distance"=Y timescos"X" .                                                                                      if "X" is inscribed between the earth line and moon line ; then the distance=Y times sin"X"                                                                                                           no other possiblities as the third angle is right