SOLUTION: Draw a right triangle with legs of length 3 cm and 8 cm. Use your triangle to estimate the answers to the following questions. A) what is measure of angle A if tan A = 3/8. B) wh

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Question 969161: Draw a right triangle with legs of length 3 cm and 8 cm. Use your triangle to estimate the answers to the following questions.
A) what is measure of angle A if tan A = 3/8.
B) what is measure of angle B if tan B = 8/3.
I'm not sure what to do. If the question was just to to find it, I would've been able to do it, and I did. m

Answer by
josgarithmetic(39629)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Lost again? Tangents work as SLOPES.

Imagine this in your head: what angles do these make with the x-axis?

Red line is for angle A and green line for angle B.


Remember, you are estimating. What do they look like?

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