Help, please? Will medal.

A 30° -60° -90° triangle has a hypotenuse with a length of 10. what is the length of the longer leg of the triangle?

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Help, please? Will medal.

A 30° -60° -90° triangle has a hypotenuse with a length of 10. what is the length of the longer leg of the triangle?

xofallenangelox · Answer

A.
5
 
 B.
5 radical 3
 
 C.
5 radical 2  
 
 D.
20

owikbenstan · Answer

5 Radical 3

xofallenangelox · Answer

Thank you, but can you explain how you got that, please?

owikbenstan · Answer

Alright, well, if you draw a triangle and set up the angles, you can use sin or cosine (depending where you place the angles on your triangle) , I personally did sin(60) = x/10 and solved for x, where 60 was the angle at the top of the triangle.

xofallenangelox · Answer

Oh, then I must've done something wrong... thanks for the help, I appreciate it.