Can someone help me solve for this expression?

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2 Answers
Mar 3, 2018

We require the law of sines here: sinCa=h

Explanation:

The law for this particular one would be:
asin(90)=hsinC
Now the sin of 90 is 1, so therefore:
a=hsinC
sinCa=h
The answer you have picked should be correct

Mar 3, 2018

You selected the right answer; it's asinC.

Explanation:

We can try all the answers out.

We can simplify all the answers and find the right one by using SOH CAH TOA:

sin=oppositehypotenuse

cos=adjacenthypotenuse

tan=oppositeadjacent

The first option is csinB. Since B isn't a part of the right triangle, we can't actually compute it in terms of the lengths in question, so this answer is probably wrong.

The next option is asinC. sinC is the opposite side of C divided by the hypotenuse of that triangle. That would be ha. Multiplying this value by a gets aha or just h. Since this is what the question was asking for, that's the right answer. Let's check the rest anyway:

The third option is bsinC. We know from before that sinC is ha. Multiplying this by b gets bha, which can't be simplified. This isn't the height of the triangle, so this isn't the right answer.

The last option is asinB. We know from before that we can't actually compute sinB, so this answer is also wrong.

That means the correct answer asinC.