SOLUTION: Given tanx=8/15 and sin>0 what is the value of cosx

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Question 820348: Given tanx=8/15 and sin>0 what is the value of cosx
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Answer by jsmallt9(3758)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A drawing might help:
  1. Draw a right triangle.
  2. Choose one of the acute angles. Let's call it angle A.
  3. Label the sides so that tan(A) = 8/15. Since tan is opposite/adjacent, make the length of the side opposite angle A an 8 and make the length of the side adjacent to A a 15.
Since we're looking for cos and since cos is adjacent/hypotenuse, we will need to find the hypotenuse. Use the Pythagorean Theorem:
(where "h" represents the length of the hypotenuse)


Square root of each side. (Since h can only be positive, we will use just the positive square root.)


Since tan(A) is positive, since we were told that sin(A) > 0 (positive) and since tan is sin/cos, cos must be positive. So:
Answer by MathTherapy(10557)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Given tan x = 8/15 and sin > 0 what is the value of cos x 


Since tan x = , and sin x > 0, then x is in the 1st quadrant, where all are positive (> 0)

tan x = , and so: y = 8; and x = 15 

__________________________r = 17  

cos x = 

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