Question

Is anybody good with triganmetric ratios in here
The moon forms a right triangle with the Earth and the Sun during one of its phases, as shown below:

A right angle triangle is shown with the Earth at the right angle. The acute angle between the line joining the Earth and the moon and the Sun and the moon is x degrees. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is y.

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 theSun

Answer 1

you can use trig

Answer 2

if you know x , and you know y , you can find the hypotenuse of this triangle (distance from moon to sun)

Answer 3

yeah this is for a pretest