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name: ____ date: __ per: __1. monica put tan 42 into her calculator and got ≈ 0.9004. a. what does the 42 mean? b. what does the 0.9004 mean? c. draw a well - labeled diagram that shows what tan 42 ≈ 0.9004 means.2. your friend keeps getting confused with fractions. four of his problems are below. some he started correctly, but others are wrong. if he started correctly, show how to finish solving the equation. if he made a mistake, find and explain the error, and then fix it and solve the equation.\\(0.27=\frac{x}{5}\\)\\((5)cdot0.27=\frac{x}{5}cdot(5)\\)\\(3.962=\frac{10}{y}\\)\\((10)cdot3.962=\frac{10}{y}cdot(10)\\)\\(\frac{b}{20}=5\\)\\((20)cdot\frac{b}{20}=5\\)\\(\frac{10}{x}=2.1\\)\\((x)cdot\frac{10}{x}=2.1cdot(x)\\)
Problem 1
Part a
In the tangent function $\tan\theta$, $\theta$ (here 42) represents an angle measure, typically in degrees (since the calculator output is a common tangent value for 42 degrees) or radians, but in this context, it's most likely degrees. So 42 is the measure of an acute angle in a right triangle (for the tangent ratio context) or the angle in the trigonometric function, measured in degrees (or radians, but degrees are common here).
The tangent of an angle in a right triangle is defined as the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the length of the adjacent side ($\tan\theta=\frac{\text{opposite}}{\text{adjacent}}$). So $\tan42\approx0.9004$ means that for an angle of 42 degrees in a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite the 42 - degree angle to the length of the side adjacent to the 42 - degree angle is approximately 0.9004.
- Draw a right triangle. Label one of the acute angles as 42 degrees.
- Label the side opposite the 42 - degree angle as $opp$, the side adjacent to the 42 - degree angle as $adj$, and the hypotenuse as $hyp$.
- Write the formula $\tan(42^{\circ})=\frac{opp}{adj}\approx0.9004$. So, if we let the adjacent side length be, for example, 1 unit, the opposite side length would be approximately 0.9004 units. We can also choose other lengths for the adjacent side, say $x$, then the opposite side would be approximately $0.9004x$.
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The 42 means the measure of an angle (in degrees, most likely) for which we are calculating the tangent. Specifically, it is the measure of an acute angle in a right - triangle (for the tangent ratio interpretation) or the argument of the tangent function, with the angle typically measured in degrees.