Question

The figure below shows a triangular piece of cloth:

Triangle ABC has angle ABC equal to 90 degrees and angle BAC equal to 32 degrees. Length of AC is 6 inches.

What is the length of the portion BC of the cloth?

Answer 1

@stacy.reed08

Answer 2

6 cos 32°
6 sin 32°
cos 32 degrees divided by 6
sin 32 degrees divided by 6

Answer 3

ok so im given the hypotenuse

Answer 4

perfect, what else are you given?

Answer 5

the angle for the adjacent?

Answer 6

think of it in terms of what you want to find, not what you know already. You know an angle...how is that angle related to side BC?

Answer 7

ohh would the side measure the same as the angle or double?

Answer 8

So it would be double the angle degree?

Answer 9

in terms of the angle and missing side x, are they next to each other or across from each other?

Answer 10

across from each other

Answer 11

so then we have the opposite!

Answer 12

you got it!

Answer 13

so it would be cosine then