If the cosine of an angle is 0.93475, what is the angle expressed as degrees, minutes and seconds?

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baldymcgee6 · Answer

cos(x) = 0.93475
Take the cos^-1 of each side to solve for x

baldymcgee6 · Answer

because the cos^-1(cos(x)) = x

anonymous · Answer

check that your answer will be 20deg 48min 43.94 sec

anonymous · Answer

20 degrees 48 minutes 43.9 se

anonymous · Answer

seconds

baldymcgee6 · Answer

@mark_o. how is degrees and time related?

anonymous · Answer

it's not time, it's just the same sort of terminology.

a degree can be divided into 60 parts called "minutes", and each minute can be divided into 60 seconds.

anonymous · Answer

have two more i need checked

anonymous · Answer

So it's very much like time, but it is just a way of dividing up degrees.

anonymous · Answer

its not really time here,,its the revolution , like i revolution = 360 degrees, and measurements with minutes and seconds are subdivisions of degrees having nothing to do with time. The names are due to the fact that 1/60th was chosen as the standard, so there are sixty minutes in a degree and sixty seconds in a minute, just like on a clock.

anonymous · Answer

what is the cosine of 104.73167 degrees? i got -0.25429 is this correct

anonymous · Answer

yes correct @ krissywatts

anonymous · Answer

what is the tangent of 75 degrees 16 minutes abd 31 seconds? i got 3.80508

anonymous · Answer

thanks

anonymous · Answer

yw good luck now

anonymous · Answer

thanks