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An 8 inch long diagonal in a rectangle makes an angle of 22 with a length of the rectangle. What is the length of the rectangle to the nearest tenth?
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An 8 inch long diagonal in a rectangle makes an angle of 22 with a length of the rectangle. What is the length of the rectangle to the nearest tenth?

An 8 inch long diagonal in a rectangle makes an angle of 22 with a length of the rectangle-example-1
User John Hua
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check picture below

plug in the values provided
An 8 inch long diagonal in a rectangle makes an angle of 22 with a length of the rectangle-example-1
User Pringles
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cosine 22 = adjacent / hypotenuse
adjacent = cosine 22 * hypotenuse
adjacent = .92718 * 8
adjacent = 7.41744
answer is C
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