COS

 

Use to give the cosine of an angle.

 

In a right angled triangle, the cosine of an angle is the length of the adjacent side (A) divided by the length of the hypotenuse (H).

 

cosx  = A/H

 

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So for an example we could transpose the formula to find either A or H if we know the angle x.

 

A = H * cosx or H = A/cosx

 

In the software we would enter the following for the values where A is 15 and H is 30 and x is 60 degrees

 

=(COS(60))*30 and =15/(COS(60))