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Please help me out with these two problems

find X and Y

Please help me out with these two problems find X and Y-example-1
User Spectrum
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Answer:

Explanation:

I'll work on the left triangle first:

tan 20 = x /10

x = 10tan 20 = 3.64

cos 20 = 10/y

y = 10/cos20 = 10.64.

tan 70 = 12/x

x = 12/tan 70 = 4.37.

sin 70 = 12/y

y = 12/sin70 = 12.77.

User Radhika
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