Solving Right Triangles All Strategies

Find, to the nearest degree, the angle which the sun's rays make with the ground when a flagpole 40 feet high casts a shadow 30 feet long.

• 48^o

• 37^o

• 28^o

• 53^o

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

Set up an equation that could be used to solve for the variable.

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

What is tan(A)?

• X / Y

• Y / X

• Z / Y

• X/ Z

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.6

Solve for the missing piece

• 41

• 27.4

• 0.6561

• 11.8

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

Which tool would you use?

• Sine

• Cosine

• Tangent

• Pythagorean Theorem

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

Which tool would you use?

• Sine

• Cosine

• Tangent

• Pythagorean Theorem

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CCSS.8.G.B.7

Which would you use to solve for the missing piece?

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

Which would you use to solve for the missing piece?

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

Which would you use to solve for the missing piece?

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CCSS.8.G.B.8

Which would you use to solve for the missing piece?

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.6