Lesson 2: The Sine and Cosine Ratios - Getting Into It

   Getting Into It

Here is what you will need for the following investigation:

  • the diagram below
  • pencil and paper

In this activity, you will identify other possible relationships in a right triangle.

Task


The tangent ratio uses the length of the side opposite θ and the length of the side adjacent to θ in a right triangle. What other pairs of sides can you identify using the triangle shown?



Record your findings on a piece of paper and continue to the next section.


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