Find the value of x. Roud to the nearest degree.

Question

The image is of a right triangle. The hypotenuse is 9 and the leg vertical from that is 7. The missing value is vertical from the right angle

Answer 1

To find the missing value, we can use the Pythagorean theorem.

Let x be the missing value.

By the Pythagorean theorem:
c^2 = a^2 + b^2
9^2 = 7^2 + x^2
81 = 49 + x^2
32 = x^2
x = sqrt(32)
x = 5.657

Rounded to the nearest degree, x is approximately 6 degrees.