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\n" ); document.write( "In a right triangle, the length of one of the legs is 8 cm and the measure of the acute angle opposite to this leg is 50°.
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document.write( "The other acute angle is  90° - 50° = 40°.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The other leg is 8*tan(40°).\r\n" );
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document.write( "The hypotenuse is  .\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "When I see the solutions of some tutors at this forum that use INADEQUATELY complicated tools for simple tasks,
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "When you work with right triangles, the \"law of sine theorem\" is irrelevant ---- the trigonometric functions perform all needed operations . . . \r
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