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SAT Math: Using Similar Triangles to Find the Sine of an Unknown Variable 3 Views


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In the figure above, triangles ΔABC and ΔEDC are similar right triangles. The length of segment BD is 60. What is the value of sin E?


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Yeah To show up in school that day and write

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it on your wrist or something That's forty five over

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fifty one We can reduce it down with a three

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there to be fifteen over seventeen So the sign of

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e Yeah it's fifteen seventeen The answer's b and got

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to be sure on these kind of problems use the

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opposite leg of e and not the adjacent one or

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suffer the wrath of incorrect our lord of incorrectness with

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an answer of eight seventeenth and the others air while

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they're all just wrong so that's it moving on it's

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b yeah

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