SOLUTION: How do you find the long leg of this special right triangle given the hypotenuse? (30,60,90)

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Question 696308: How do you find the long leg of this special right triangle given the hypotenuse? (30,60,90)
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How do you find the long leg of this special right triangle given the hypotenuse? (30,60,90)
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The short leg = 1/2 the hypotenuse.
You can use that and Pythagoras.
Or, the long leg = hyp*sine(60)