SOLUTION: given the short leg of a 30-60-90 triangle, how do you find the other two sides?

Question 495500: given the short leg of a 30-60-90 triangle, how do you find the other two sides?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Suppose the short leg is , where
can be any number. The short leg will be opposite
the 30 degree angle.
To find the length of the side opposite the 60
degree angle, use the ratio:

is the answer
for the length opposite the 90 degree angle use:

is the answer
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