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Can you help me find the radian measure of 300 degrees?

 May 31, 2016
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5.23599 

 May 31, 2016
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How did you find that? Could you do those steps for me please?

 May 31, 2016
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You can use this coversion for degrees to radians :    pi / 180    ......so we have

 

300  *  [ pi   / 180 ]  =

 

[300/ 180]  * pi   =

 

[5/3   pi]  ≈   5.236 radians

 

 

 

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 May 31, 2016
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So you would use the same equation if the angle was more than 180 degrees?

 

And why would you do (300/180)*pi?

 

Wouldn't you originally do this first (this is how my teacher woud do it basically):

 

*(pi/180) = (x/300) 

*Times each side by 300

*(300pi/180)

 

Would this get to the same answer?

 

And I'm also trying to see the answer NOT in decimal form. The decimal is nice, but I would also like to see an equation-like way of the answer...using the idea I have above. 

 May 31, 2016
edited by Guest  May 31, 2016
edited by Guest  May 31, 2016
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Yes.....the same conversion would still apply, no matter the angle....

 

Your teacher's method is basically the same as mine.

 

If you don't want  a decimal answer, leave it as..... 5pi/ 3   rads

 

 

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 May 31, 2016

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