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SAT Math: Using Similar Triangles to Find the Sine of an Unknown Variable 4 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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- 00:00
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
- 02:07
there to be fifteen over seventeen So the sign of
- 02:10
e Yeah it's fifteen seventeen The answer's b and got
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- 02:13
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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