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How Do You Find a Missing Side of a Right Triangle Using Tangent? Instructional VideoHow Do You Find a Missing Side of a Right Triangle Using Tangent? Instructional Video
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How Do You Find a Missing Side of a Right Triangle Using Tangent?

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Identify the variables, identify the given values and use a formula to find the missing length in this right triangle problem. What formula? The tangent ratio, which is normally used to show a ratio between two sides of a right triangle, but can also be used to find a missing side length. Tangent (A) equals the length of the opposite side divided by the length of the adjacent side. Plug in the values and solve.

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legs, hypotenuse, length, measurement, ratios, right triangles, triangles, tangent, trigonometric ratios

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right triangle, tangent, adjacent side, opposite side, hypotenuse, leg, ratio, Trigonometry, length, math
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6th - 11th
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Math
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5:06
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