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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Help me please

OpenStudy (anonymous):

hartnn (hartnn):

do you know about cos ratio ?

hartnn (hartnn):

\(\huge \cos \theta =\dfrac{adjacent ~side }{hypotenuse} \) sounds familiar ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so what do i do

hartnn (hartnn):

use the cos ratio what is side adjacent to angle 32 ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

9?

hartnn (hartnn):

correct! so using the definition of cos we get cos 32 = 9/x did you get this part ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok yeah now what do we do?

hartnn (hartnn):

just find x x = 9/cos 32 = ..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

how do i find x?

hartnn (hartnn):

do 9/ cos 32 in calculator or google

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i get 10.7

hartnn (hartnn):

its actually 10.613, but ok you still get 10.6 as the final answer :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

oh ok ty

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