SOLUTION: How do you find the length of the adjacent side if you only know the angle and the opposite side?

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Question 311288: How do you find the length of the adjacent side if you only know the angle and the opposite side?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm assuming it's a right triangle.
Then you know all three angles since the other angle is 90.
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+cos%28A%29=ADJ%2FHYP
+tan%28A%29=OPP%2FADJ
+ADJ=OPP%2Ftan%28A%29+