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Old 03-12-2019, 3:14pm   #4
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Originally Posted by Defib1961 View Post
I never was good at geometry. Someone would ask me to find an angle, all I could do was point at a crooked line and say, "There it is."

So here is the question: Side "A" is 6 inches long, Hypotnuese is 29.5 inches long, Side B is 29 inches long. What the hell is my angle?

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TIA!
sine = opposite/hypotenuese

sine of small angle = 6/29.5 = 0.23389

so angle = 11.74 degrees.
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