Can you help? How does tan60 equal #sqrt3# ?
1 Answer
May 1, 2018
Please see the explanation.
Explanation:
Consider an equilateral triangle with side length = 2, draw the
altitude from one of vertices, it will bisect the angle and it would be
the perpendicular bisector of the opposite side and it divides the
equilateral triangle into 2 equal right triangles. The hypotenuse is 2
the shorter side is 1 so the longer side is:
Now the longer side is opposite to the 60 degrees angle and: