SOLUTION: doing special right triangles (30-60-90) - if you are given a 30-60-90 triangle and the hypotenuse is 12square roots of 3 and you are not given the other lengths of the legs but yo

Question 398245: doing special right triangles (30-60-90) - if you are given a 30-60-90 triangle and the hypotenuse is 12square roots of 3 and you are not given the other lengths of the legs but you need to find the short legs length ( short leg is x and long leg is y ) what do you do to find it ?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You know the ratios of the sides opposite the angles
ar as follows: (30, 60, 90) = , ,
given:
The hypotenuse is

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