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When do you use soh cah toa

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When finding missing side measures in a right triangle.

Soh = (Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse)

Cah = (Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse)

Toa = (Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent)

There are also reciprocals for these values:

Cho (Cosecant = Hypotenuse / Opposite)

Sha (Secant = Hypotenuse / Adjacent)

Cao (Cotanget = Adjacent / Opposite)


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