Question

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?

Answer 1

check picture below

plug in the values provided

Answer 2

cosine 22 = adjacent / hypotenuse
adjacent = cosine 22 * hypotenuse
adjacent = .92718 * 8
adjacent = 7.41744
answer is C