Quantcast
Student Doctor Network Forums - View Single Post - EK physics question
View Single Post
Old 06-01-2012, 11:11 PM   #6
1K Member
 
TheShaker's Avatar
 
Status: Pre-Medical
MDApps: View Profile
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 1,781

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by yellowjellybean View Post
Oh I see, if we assume it's a right triangle, the 100 would be the hypotenuse. But I don't understand from where in the question, we can just assume that.
We know the angle for the unknown is 30 so that can't be the hypotenuse. That leaves 87 and 100 and the longest side is always the hypotenuse in a right triangle because it is produced by the largest possible angle, 90.
TheShaker is offline   Reply With Quote