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What’s the missing side? Also round it to the nearest tenth. Trigonometry.

What’s the missing side? Also round it to the nearest tenth. Trigonometry.-example-1

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For this problem we use the trigonometric function cosine:


\cos (59^(\circ))=(28)/(x)

Solving for x we get:


\begin{gathered} x=(28)/(\cos (59^(\circ)))\approx54.4 \\ x\approx54.4 \end{gathered}

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