Question

HELP PLEASE!!

Discuss the steps that you used
to create your tangent line.
What was the most important
step?
Give an example of tangents in
the real world that have not
been presented in this lesson.
Explain how you know the
tangent and the radius are
perpendicular.

Answer 1

You need to have both the opposite and adjacent side of the right angled triangle. Tan = Opp/Adj

Explanation:

Tangents are pretty much everywhere. A good example is maybe a slide at the playground. You’d need the tangent to figure out the angle of the slide and how it is.

The radius from the center of a circle to the point of tangency point shows that it would be perpendicular to the tangent line considering that anything with a radius is circular and the tangent line is… a line, making it impossible to be parallel.