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Geometry worksheet to help students identify angle measures, opposite and adjacent legs, hypotenuses and choose the appropriate trigonometric ratio to use in a trigonometric equation.

Activity 3.8​

Assignment 3.9

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​Assignment 7.16

​Choosing Trigonometric Ratios

 
Objective
Choose the appropriate trigonometric functions to complete equations in order to find lengths of sides in right triangles.
Geometry worksheet to help students choose the trigonometric ratio to use to calculate missing side lengths in right triangles.

About Geometry Worksheet Assignment 7.16:     

 

Assignment 7.16 is an introduction to choosing the correct trigonometric function to use in finding lengths of sides in right triangles.

 

Prerequisite Skills:  Write trigonometric ratios (Assignment 7.12).  Solve trigonometric equations (Assignment 7.15).

 

Definition:   (SOHCAHTOA is an acronym for the sin, cos, and tan trigonometric equations.)

 

                                             S     O     H                C       A      H             T        O       A

 

                                             Sin   =    Opposite         Cos  =    Adjacent           Tan =      Opposite

                                                         Hypotenuse                   Hypotenuse                        Adjacent

 

                                             

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