I need to calculate the height of $x$ in my triangle and I know the base as well as the inner angles. I've used the following equation to try calculate it based off this answer here:
How do you find the height of a triangle given $3$ angles and the base side? Image given.
The equation that I got based off that answer was this:
$$x = \frac{1000 \sin(90) \sin(5)}{ \sin(85)}$$
this gives me a value of around $4000$ which can't be right so not sure where i've gone wrong here?
Best Answer
Recall that $\tan 5 ^{\circ}=\frac{x}{1000}$