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What's the value? (yelping for help)

What's the value? (yelping for help)-example-1
User Patrick Frey
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Answer: cos 20

Explanation:

User Roman Glass
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cos(20°) is the correct answer.

Congratulations! This is the unit circle. Literally everyone hates this. Everyone takes this in Trigonometry though, and it's required. I literally failed Trigonometry because of this and had to retake it when getting my degree in Mathematics.

So, what is the x-coordinate of this? Well, for any angle or (angle in triangle)
\alpha, the coordinates are always (
cos(\alpha), sin(\alpha)).

In this case, angle
\alpha is 20°, and so the x-coordinate will be cos(20°) while the y-coordinate will be sin(20°).

Hope this helped!

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