Trig Question

[olds]

I suck at math. Always have, always will. Never took algebra in HS but did in college. I passed but I didn't learn anything.

I have to take a promotional exam and there are 30 math (30%) questions. Math questions that after the exam, I will never have to see/do again (yes I work for the government).

So I am trying to teach myself some geometry and trig. I have a question about right triangles:
Is the opposite always 45.9% of the hypotenuse? One guy seems to imply that it is always true of a right triangle. But I haven't seen any videos solving like that.

 

[NutBucket]

No, that's the purpose of sin/cos/tan so one can figure out what the angles/lengths are.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Geometry/Right_Triangles_and_Pythagorean_Theorem

 

[rcpratt]

Soh cah toa.

 

[olds]

No, that's the purpose of sin/cos/tan so one can figure out what the angles/lengths are.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Geometry/Right_Triangles_and_Pythagorean_Theorem

Soh cah toa.

Thanks. sohcahtoa is what I am studying. Thought I found a shortcut.

 

[NutBucket]

No shortcuts in trig

 

[dank69]

I suck at math. Always have, always will. Never took algebra in HS but did in college. I passed but I didn't learn anything.

I have to take a promotional exam and there are 30 math (30%) questions. Math questions that after the exam, I will never have to see/do again (yes I work for the government).

So I am trying to teach myself some geometry and trig. I have a question about right triangles:
Is the opposite always 45.9% of the hypotenuse? One guy seems to imply that it is always true of a right triangle. But I haven't seen any videos solving like that.

That guy sounds like an idiot.