SOLUTION: explain how you can use the length of the shorter leg of a 30,60,90 degrees triangle to find the lengths of the other two sides?

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Question 730020: explain how you can use the length of the shorter leg of a 30,60,90 degrees triangle to find the lengths of the other two sides?
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
explain how you can use the length of the shorter leg of a 30,60,90 degrees triangle to find the lengths of the other two sides?
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sin(30) = 1/2 so the hypotenuse = 2 times the shorter leg
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Then you can use Pythagoras (or sin(60)) to find the 3rd side

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