Second Day TANGENT only

A red arrow is pointing to one side of the triangle. Is that side the opposite or adjacent side to the angle with the asterisk?

A red arrow is pointing to one side of the triangle. Is that side the opposite or adjacent side to the angle with the asterisk?

First to setup the ratio it is going to look like this. Opposite over adjacent is going to be 15/x So you get

When the x is on bottom we will dividing. It will end up being

It will look like this in the calculator. Makes sure that you have degree clicked. and that you use just the regular tan without clicking "inv" first.

Here is what the answer is.

in the calculator it will look like this

Like this where the x is on top you will multiply the numbers.