what's the angle if the side is 12" and the adjacent is 120"

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Guest Jun 13, 2014

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When you say "side," I think you mean the "opposite" side. (It can't be the hypoteneuse because that would have to be longer than 120").

So, the tangent function would relate these. We have:

tan(θ) = 12/120 So...taking the tangent inverse to find "theta", we have

tan^-1(12/120) ≈ 5.71°

CPhill Jun 13, 2014

CPhill · Answer 1 · 2014-06-13T11:54:16

When you say "side," I think you mean the "opposite" side. (It can't be the hypoteneuse because that would have to be longer than 120").

So, the tangent function would relate these. We have:

tan(θ) = 12/120 So...taking the tangent inverse to find "theta", we have

tan^-1(12/120) ≈ 5.71°