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Arccosine is a relationship used to find an acute angle measure in a right triangle when two side lengths are known.
The arccosine of a number between 0 and 1 is the measure of an acute angle whose cosine is that number.
\(\arccos \left( \frac{\text{adjacent}}{\text{hypotenuse}} \right)=\theta\)
Arcsine is a relationship used to find an acute angle measure in a right triangle when two side lengths are known.
The arcsine of a number between 0 and 1 is the measure of an acute angle whose sine is that number.
\(\arcsin \left( \frac{\text{opposite}}{\text{hypotenuse}} \right) = \theta\)
Arctangent is a relationship used to find an acute angle measure in a right triangle when two side lengths are known.
The arctangent of a positive number is the measure of an acute angle whose tangent is that number.
\(\arctan \left( \frac{\text{opposite}}{\text{adjacent}} \right) = \theta\)
When a figure is circumscribed, it is completely surrounded by another figure, so their sides, edges, vertices, or curves touch.
A dilation is a transformation that can reduce or enlarge a figure.
A dilation with center \(P\) and positive scale factor \(k\) takes a point \(A\) along the ray \(PA\) to another point whose distance is \(k\) times farther away from \(P\) than \(A\) is.
Triangle \(A'B'C'\) is the result of applying a dilation with center \(P\) and scale factor 3 to triangle \(ABC\).
An irrational number is a number that is not rational. This means it cannot be expressed as a positive fraction, a negative fraction, or zero. It cannot be written in the form \(\frac{a}{b}\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are integers and \(b \neq 0\).
For example, the numbers \(\pi\) and \(\text{-}\sqrt{2}\) are irrational numbers.
A linear term of an expression has a variable raised to the first power.
A rational number is a number that can be written as a positive fraction, a negative fraction, or zero. It can be written in the form \(\frac{a}{b}\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are integers and \(b \neq 0\).
Trigonometric ratios relate the angles and sides of right triangles.
Three trigonometric ratios are sine, cosine, and tangent.
\(\sin(\theta)=\dfrac{\text{opposite}}{\text{hypotenuse}}\)
\(\cos(\theta)=\dfrac{\text{adjacent}}{\text{hypotenuse}}\)
\(\tan(\theta)=\dfrac{\text{opposite}}{\text{adjacent}}\)