Practice

Problems for Trig Ratios

Complete these problems using the Table of Right Triangle Ratios! Show you work! Round to
three decimal places.

(for the following, use the Table of Right Triangle Ratios to find the missing angle to the nearest
degree!)

1. Up until now, we have only considered integer angle measures. But it turns out that we
could make a more detailed Table of Right Triangle Ratios. They exist! An example:
Angle
(degree)

leg opposite of angle leg adjacent to the angle

hypotenuse
hypotenuse

leg opposite of angle

leg adjacent to the angle

37.0

0.6018

0.7986

0.7536

37.1

0.6032

0.7976

0.7563

37.2

0.6046

0.7965

0.7590

37.3

0.6060

0.7955

0.7618

37.4

0.6074

0.7944

0.7646

37.5

0.6088

0.7934

0.7673

37.6

0.6101

0.7923

0.7701

37.7

0.6115

0.7912

0.7729

37.8

0.6129

0.7902

0.7757

37.9

0.6143

0.7891

0.7785

38.0

0.6157

0.7880

0.7813

38.1

0.6170

0.7869

0.7841

38.2

0.6184

0.7859

0.7869

38.3

0.6198

0.7848

0.7898

38.4

0.6211

0.7837

0.7926

38.5

0.6225

0.7826

0.7954

38.6

0.6239

0.7815

0.7983

38.7

0.6252

0.7804

0.8012

38.8

0.6266

0.7793

0.8040

38.9

0.6280

0.7782

0.8069

(a) What is the missing angle in this triangle rounded to the nearest tenth of a degree?


(b) Find the two missing sides (rounded to three decimal places):

(c) Find the two missing sides (rounded to three decimal places)::

(d) Find the two missing sides (rounded to three decimal places):

2. Write down three pairs of complementary angles (and fill in the ratios from the large
Table of Right Triangle Ratios) to create a Mini-Table of Right Triangle Ratios

Angle
(degree)

leg opposite of angle leg adjacent to the angle

hypotenuse
hypotenuse

Come up with a conjecture based on these observations.


Explain why your conjecture will always be true!