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How Do You Find the Tangent of an Angle in a Right Triangle?

Find tan(A) in the right triangle given below

Summary

  1. In our ratio, "opp" stands for opposite and "adj" stands for adjacent
  2. The opposite side is the side across from the angle
  3. The adjacent side is the side next to the angle

Notes

    1. The tangent of an angle is the length of the opposite side over the length of the adjacent side
    1. The opposite side is the side across from A, which is 15
    2. The adjacent side is the side next to A but is not the hypotenuse
    3. The adjacent side here is 8