Question

What is the value of x in the triangle below to the nearest degree?

Answer 1

@jim_thompson5910

Answer 2

what is the length of 31? is that a leg or a hypotenuse?

Answer 3

any ideas?

Answer 4

hypotenuse

Answer 5

with respect to angle x, what is the length 23? is that the adjacent side? or the opposite side?

Answer 6

opposite i think

Answer 7

correct

Answer 8

which trig function uses both the opposite side and the hypotenuse?

Answer 9

that i do not know :(

Answer 10

check out this page

http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/trigonometry.html

and look for the section "Sine, Cosine and Tangent"

Answer 11

sin

Answer 12

good

Answer 13

sin(x) = opp/hyp

sin(x) = 23/31

how do we isolate x?

Answer 14

I do not know that either

Answer 15

have you heard of things like arcsine or arccosine?

Answer 16

No i cannot say that I have

Answer 17

how about inverse sine?

Answer 18

i have not heard of that either

Answer 19

do you have a calculator?