1. GEOMETRY: Chapter 9
9.6 Solve Right Triangles

2. Solving a Right Triangle
To solve a right triangle means to find the measures of all of its sides and angles. You can solve a right triangle if you know either of the following:
Two side lengths
One side length and the measure of one acute angle.

3. Image taken from: Geometry. McDougal Littell: Boston, 2007. P. 482.

4. Ex. 1: Use a calculator to approximate the measure of angle Q to the nearest tenth of a degree.
Images taken from: Geometry. McDougal Littell: Boston, P. 484.

5. Ex. 2: Let angle C be an acute angle in a right triangle
Ex. 2: Let angle C be an acute angle in a right triangle. Use a calculator to approximate the measure of angle C to the nearest tenth of a degree.
sin C=0.24
cos C=0.37

6. Ex. 3:
Solve the right triangle formed by the water slide shown below. Round decimal answers to the nearest tenth.
Images taken from: Geometry. McDougal Littell: Boston, P. 484.

7. Ex. 4
A road rises 10 feet in a horizontal distance of 200 feet. What is the angle of inclination?

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