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Could someone help me with this trigonometry question where you have to calculate the length of bc, to the nearest degree.

Could someone help me with this trigonometry question where you have to calculate-example-1
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Answer: The length of BC ≈ 12.4 cm

Explanation:

The first thing we need to do is to find the length of BD which we can solve for with the tangent of 20° which is the opposite side over the adjacent side.

We get tan20° = BD/8.

Solve for BD and you get BD = 8tan20°.

Now we will need to solve for the length of CD which we can get from the tangent of 40°.

We get tan40° = 8/CD

Solve for CD and you get CD = 8/tan40°.

Now that we have the lengths of BD and DC, we can simply add them together to get the length of BC.

(8tan20°) + (8/tan40°) ≈ 12.4 cm

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