Question

Tje ratio of the sides of a right triangle are 5:12:13. What is the tangent of the larger acute angle of the triangle?

Answer 1

Let me draw it for you, but first understand that given a right triangle, its hypotenuse (the angle opposite the right angle) is always the longest...


Where k is some positive constant.

Answer 2

Okay, the larger acute triangle is opposite the larger of the two legs. So this is the angle in question:

Now what's tan A?

Answer 3

12 over 5, then divide, right?

Answer 4

12/5 should probably suffice, unless a decimal answer is called for.

Answer 5

|dw:1360510227792:dw12/5=2.4

Answer 6

Either of those. You're right :)