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Find the tangent of

Find the tangent of-example-1
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In right triangle trigonometry, we define tangent of an angle to be the ratio of the opposite side to adjacent side.

We want tan (D). With respect to the angle D,

>>> The opposite side is 12

>>> The adjacent side is 5

Thus, the ratio is >>>


\tan (D)=(12)/(5)

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