Question

How tо sоlvе for x and round to the nearest tenth?

Answer 1

Solution

For this case we have one angle and one side of the triangle so we can do this:

For this special case we have:

$\tan 51=\frac{x}{15}$

Solving for x we got:

$x=15\cdot\tan 51=18.52$

Then the final answer is x=18.5