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Someone please help! find the vaule of x. round to the nearest tenth! ​ trigonometry!

Someone please help! find the vaule of x. round to the nearest tenth! ​ trigonometry-example-1

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Someone please help! find the vaule of x. round to the nearest tenth! ​ trigonometry-example-1
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User Endolith
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Answer:

x = 80.4

Explanation:

Use tangent


tangent=(opposite)/(adjacent)

We have a measure of the angle and length of the adjacent:


\alpha=15^o,\ adjacent=300


\tan15^o\approx0.2679

Therefore we have the equation:


(x)/(300)=0.2679 multiply both sides by 300


x=80.37\to x\approx80.4

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