Question

What’s the missing side? Also round it to the nearest tenth. Trigonometry.

Answer 1

For this problem we use the trigonometric function cosine:

`\cos (59^(\circ))=(28)/(x)`

Solving for x we get:

`\begin{gathered} x=(28)/(\cos (59^(\circ)))\approx54.4 \\ x\approx54.4 \end{gathered}`