SOLUTION: if you have a hypotenuse triangle with one angle 30 degrees and one side 10. How do you find the length of the other side. the answers that they give are a: 10 square root of 2

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Question 326629: if you have a hypotenuse triangle with one angle 30 degrees and one side 10. How do you find the length of the other side.
the answers that they give are a: 10 square root of 2
b: 10 square root of 3
c: 5 square root of 3
d: 5 square root of 2
how do you calculate it? i don't know how to calculate when i only have one side.

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I think you mean right triangle instead of hypotenuse triangle.
If it's a right triangle and you know one angle is 30, the other angle is 60.
In terms of the hypotenuse, the two sides would be


From your description, I'm not sure which one equals 10 (A or B).
We'll do it both ways.







Not one of the choices, try the other.
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Looks like we have a winner since it's one of the choices.

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