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ACT Math 1.2 Trigonometry 274 Views
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ACT Math Trigonometry Drill 1, Problem 2. Can you find the tangent?
- Trigonometry / SOHCAHTOA (values and properties of trig functions)
- Trigonometry / Trig identities
- Product Type / ACT Math
- Foreign Language / Arabic Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Spanish Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Korean Subtitled
- Foreign Language / Chinese Subtitled
- Trigonometry / Solving trigonometric equations
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- 00:02
And here is your shmoop de jour.
- 00:04
What is the tangent of a forty-five degrees?
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And here are the potential answers...
- 00:11
Since we want to know what the tangent of forty-five degrees
- 00:14
is, we can use the half angle formula with ninety degrees because
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ninety divided by two is 45. So
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we just plug in ninety for X and a half angle formula here
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Tangent ninety over two equals one minus cosine
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ninety over sine of ninety. Cosine of 90 is 0 and Sine of 90 is 1
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our equation now looks a lot more welcoming and tangent of ninety divided by 2
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equals one number one
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so we've simplified and tangent of forty-five equals 1.
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So there you go, it's answer C.
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