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Given that Arccos (√3/2)=β, what are all the angle measurements for right triangle ABC?

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Answer:

30°, 60° and 90°

Explanation:

Given the expression Arccos (√3/2)=β, we can use the expression to calculate one of the acute angles in a right angled triangle.

Note that a right angled triangle is made up of two acute angles and a right angled (90°)

Let's get one of the acute angles first

If Arccos (√3/2)=β

β = cos^-1 √3/2

β = 30°

This shows that one of the acute angles is 30°

To get the third angle, we know that sum of angles in a triangle is 180° and since we already know two of the angles, i.e 90° and 30°, we can get the third angle.

90+30+x = 180

120+x = 180

x = 180-120

x = 60°

All the angle measurement for the right angled triangle are 30°, 60° and 90°

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