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What is the measure of angle R?

Enter your answer as a decimal in the box. Round only your final answer to the nearest hundredth.

What is the measure of angle R? Enter your answer as a decimal in the box. Round only-example-1
User Wingate
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Answer:

22.62 degrees

Explanation:

Right triangle

you can pick cosine or sine to calculate angle r

sin r = opposite leg/ hypotenuse = 5/13

arcsin(5/13) = 22.62 degrees

cos r = 12/13

r = arccos(12/13) = 22.62 degrees

User Jaswinder Singh
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