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What is the measure of RCD?

What is the measure of RCD?-example-1

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Find length CD first, which is the hypotenuse of the triangle.

PD = opposite

Opposite & hypotenuse = SOH or sin

Sin(27) = 15/H

x h, then ÷ sin(27)

H = 15/sin(27)

H = 33.04....

Move to triangle CDR:

15 is length opposite the angle we're after.

So far, we've got the hypotenuse (which we just found to be 33.04....) & the opposite of our triangle

Hypotenuse & opposite = SOH

Sin(x) = 15/33.04... but, to find the angle we do inverse of sin

sin-1(15/33.04...) = x

x = 27

(33.04... means I used the full numbers displayed on my calculator)

Thus, RCD is 27 degrees

Hope this helps!

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