document.write( "Question 1172290: Please check my work, thank you.\r
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document.write( "Here's what you're supposed to do. For this problem you aren't supposed to do\r\n" );
document.write( "any calculations at all.  You are to start by drawing the special 30-60-90\r\n" );
document.write( "right triangle that you should memorize.  Learn how it looks when it's standing\r\n" );
document.write( "up or when it's lying down.  Learn the sides. The shortest side (leg) is 1, the\r\n" );
document.write( "middle size side (leg) is √3 and the longest (the hypotenuse) is 2.  The\r\n" );
document.write( "smallest angle is 30°, the middle-sized angle is 60° and the right angle is, of\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then since your problem says a 30-60-90 triangle has a hypotenuse of 10,\r\n" );
document.write( "instead of the sides being \r\n" );
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document.write( "as they are for the standard 30-60-90 right triangle,\r\n" );
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document.write( "since 10 is the hypotenuse, you just multiply all three sides\r\n" );
document.write( "by 5 and get:\r\n" );
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