Question

The sail of a boat is in the shape of a right triangle. Which expression shows the height, in meters, of the sail?

The sail of a boat is a right triangle with an acute angle equal to 40 degrees and the side adjacent to the 40 degrees angle is 2 meters long.

Answer 1

crap i'm learning the same stuff and i know even know how help,well guess i'm off to another question

Answer 2

*how to help*

Answer 3

Let's draw it out once again

Answer 4

It's very similar to your previous question

How would you find x?

Answer 5

thre you go AZ the right person,i'm pretty sure s/he is smart

Answer 6

you need to use tangent

Answer 7

Exactly! So remember

\(\large \tan \theta = \dfrac{\text{opposite}}{\text{adjacent}}\)

you have your angle and you have the adjacent side

Answer 8

What would be the expression to find the opposite side

We're not looking for the final answer here. We're looking for the expression. So all you have to do is multiply both sides by the adjacent side and you'll have your opposite side

Answer 9

Does that make sense? And you can plug in your numbers

Answer 10

yeah thanks

Answer 11

No problem! Glad I could help :)