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Given the following information, find the length of the missing side. Leave your answer as a simplified radical.

Given the following information, find the length of the missing side. Leave your answer-example-1
User Syed Tariq
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Answer: I heard that you need square root 3 at the end to make it long on another question.

7 sq 3

Step-by-step explanation: other user's and my answer

User Chris Bui
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Answer:

7√3

Explanation:

Given the following information,

Short = 7 = Opposite

Angle of elevation =30 degrees

Required

Long (Adjacent)

Using SOH CAH TOA identity

tan theta = 7/long

tan 30 = 7/long

long = 7/tan30

long= 7/1/√3

long = 7√3

Hence the long is 7√3

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