Fab Five for Trigonometry Level Fourteen: Solving Right Triangles

A special feature of Level Fourteen is a listing of the vast applications of trigonometry in areas of science, engineering and navigation. Levels Fourteen through Twenty are written to further help you think critically, and solve challenging real world problems with trigonometry. One skill to master is “Solving Triangles” which means finding all three angles and all three sides of a triangle. The three trigonometric functions used to solve most right triangles (which is the focus of Level Fourteen) are Sine, Cosine and Tangent. In Levels Nineteen and Twenty, solving triangles that are not right triangles is addressed and for good reason because not every triangle in real world applications is a right triangle.