SOLUTION: rewrite: -25 degrees in radical form. please help?

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Question 390333: rewrite: -25 degrees in radical form.
please help?

Answer by jsmallt9(3758) About Me  (Show Source):
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I think you mean "in radian form". Radicals have nothing to do with this problem. To convert degrees to radians we use the fact that a complete circle, in degrees, is 360. A complete circle, in radians, is 2pi. So
360 degrees = 2pi radians
Dividing both sides of this by 2 we get:
180 degrees = pi radians
Dividing both sides by 180 we get:
1 degree = pi%2F180 radians
This equation tells us that degrees can be converted to radians by multiplying the number of degrees by pi%2F180. Using this on your expression we get:
-25+%2A+%28pi%2F180%29
which simplifies to:
-5pi%2F36