How tо sоlvе for x and round to the nearest tenth?

Bassinator asked Jul 25, 2023

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Bassinator asked Jul 25, 2023

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Solution

For this case we have one angle and one side of the triangle so we can do this:

For this special case we have:

$\tan 51=(x)/(15)$

Solving for x we got:

$x=15\cdot\tan 51=18.52$

Then the final answer is x=18.5

Jungtaek Lim answered Jul 29, 2023

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