SOLUTION: If a right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 17 and an adjacent side of length 15? what is the missing side? And find all 6 trigonometric functions?

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Question 956876: If a right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 17 and an adjacent side of length 15? what is the missing side? And find all 6 trigonometric functions?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem,




You didn't specify which angle so I'll leave that to you to find the trig functions.
The two angles are,


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