Question

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Answer 1

@darkknight

Answer 2

What ratio is tan?
What I mean is, what does the trig function tan mean?

Answer 3

Well you know that tan is opposite/adjacent, with respect to the angle that you are talking about. So can you find what tan (theta) is?

Answer 4

tan is the opposite side divided by adjacent

Answer 5

yes, so what is the opposite and adjacent side of the angle theta?

Answer 6

Hm well 3.9 is the hypo so its not that..

Answer 7

3.6?

Answer 8

3.6 is the adjacent side yes.
and 1.5 is the opposite side.
So you know that tan(theta) = 1.5/3.6
But you have a problem, because 1.5/3.6 is not an answer choice
So what you have to do is to find which answer choice has the same ratio as 1.5/3.6

Answer 9

Turn them into fractions? Not sure tbh

Answer 10

So what I mean is that your answer is 1.5/3.6 right?
But that is not an answer choice.
1.5/3.6 is the same as 3/7.2 which is the same as 6/14.4, (do you get what I mean, the ratio is the same)
So you are trying to find which ratio is the same as 1.5/3.6 and that will be your answer

Answer 11

A good idea is to find the decimal value of 1.5/3.6, It is slightly under .5, you can eliminate options a and d because they clearly are not the right answers

Answer 12

so wouldn't it be 5/12 if im right

Answer 13

yes u got it

Answer 14

Got it okay that makes sense now