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match-your-steps · 2 years ago

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just saying I don't think I should have to use the trigonometry I haven't used since. gosh it feels like since precalc. mainly at all but also specifically for my landscape design graphics class. I'm here to draw pretty trees I'm not here to find the hypoteneuse

#actually i never had to find the hypoteneuse in this situation #i had it the whole entire time #what i had to find was first the measure of an angle (in a non-right triangle) using all three side lengths #because what i really wanted was the triangle's altitude #if that's the right word #and then i had to find the length of a leg of a made up right triangle #because that's what an altitude is #again assuming that's the right word #using the hypoteneuse length and the measure of the angle i found earlier #btw the angle was about 61.25 degrees #and the altitude was about 58.74 feet #gotta wonder what my classmates did for this because i feel like this was not it #landscape design #precalc #math #trig #trigonometry #triangles #class #school #high school #college #university #student #student problems #hypoteneuse #i did in fact use the rule of cosines #i think that's what it's called

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