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How can tangent be seen geometrically in the unit circle?

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The coordinates of the points on the unit circle help us to find the tangent of each angle. As you can see with this equation, the tangent of an angle is equal to the y-coordinate divided by the x-coordinate. For each angle, start by dividing each y-coordinate by the x-coordinate to get the tangent of that angle.

i hoped this helped a little :D

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