SOLUTION: In the triangle, BC = 12 cm and tan C = 0.583. What is the length of the hypotenuse, to the nearest tenth of a centimetre?

Question 1053979: In the triangle, BC = 12 cm and tan C = 0.583. What is the length of the hypotenuse, to the nearest tenth of a centimetre?

Answer by ikleyn(52824) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Bad way to formulate the problem.

Your first words MUST be:

"In a right-angled triangle, . . . "

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