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Find the tangent of the smaller acute angle in a right triangle with side lengths 8, 15, and 17

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Answer: the tangent of the smaller acute angle in this right triangle is 8/15.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the side lengths of the correct triangle are given as 8, 15, and 17, able to see that the sides with lengths 8 and 15 are the legs of the proper triangle, and the side with length 17 is the hypotenuse.

We know that the littler intense point θ is inverse the shorter leg of length 8. Hence, the digression of θ is:

tan(θ) = opposite/adjacent = 8/15

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