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  • 06-05-2016
  • Mathematics
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if sin A = .5 and cos A = .866 then what is tan A to the nearest thousandth

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AL2006
AL2006 AL2006
  • 06-05-2016

Somewhere in a table of trig-function definitions that you have somewhere,
it mentions that

            tan(a)  =  sin(a) / cos(a).

So it must follow that

            tan(A)  =  (0.500) / (0.866)  =  0.577  (rounded)  

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