The longer leg of a 30°-60°-90° triangle is 16sqrt3. How long is the shorter leg?

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eviant · Answer

$$16\sqrt{3}$$

eviant · Answer

@dude @Vocaloid

dude · Answer

If they gave you the long leg as $16\sqrt{3}$ then the short leg is just the number in front of the sqrt3

jhonyy9 · Answer

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sin 30° = 1/2

so

1/2 = AB / 16sqrt3

AB = 16sqrt3/2

AB = 8sqrt3

jhonyy9 · Answer

@dude is this correct ?

jhonyy9 · Answer

@Vocaloid your opinion please about this ? thank you

dude · Answer

Yeah, that’s much easier and I don’t think eviant has learned triangle trig

jhonyy9 · Answer

but - pardon @dude - than this is correct ,so this mean that what you ve wrote above not is - hope i see it right

dude · Answer

Oh

Whoops, uh they gave us a leg, not the hypotenuse

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