Thread: Pretty basic trigonometry question help!?

Hi guys,

anyone posess the required knowledge necessary to help me out on this question I am finding particularly question?

Thanks

Originally Posted by thekashmear

Hi guys,

anyone posess the required knowledge necessary to help me out on this question I am finding particularly question?

Thanks

1. You are dealing with two right triangles whose acute angle have the value and whose hypotenuses are and (see attachment)

2. According to the sketch:





and:

3. Plug in the terms of x and y into the last equation and afterwards multiply through by 2.

Thanks a lot man, great help!