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ACT Math 3.3 Trigonometry 220 Views
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ACT Math: Trigonometry Drill 3, Problem 3. Can you find the sine?
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- 00:02
Here's another shmoop du jour...
- 00:04
What is sin of 45 degrees equal to?
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And here are your potential answers...
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This one should be a no-brainer. Seriously.
- 00:14
We should have the values of the special trig functions memorized by now, and 45 degrees
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is one of them. Sin of 45 degrees is root 2 over 2. We couldn't
- 00:25
have gotten confused with the cosine of 45 degrees either...because that value is also
- 00:30
root 2 over 2.
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Our answer's C.
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