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how come when doing 100sin120/sin90which should equal 87 its giving me the wrong answer, how do I correctly enter this into the calculator to get the correct answer

 Aug 2, 2016
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how come when doing 100sin120/sin90which should equal 87 its giving me the wrong answer, how do I correctly enter this into the calculator to get the correct answer

 

\(\frac{100sin120}{sin90}\\ =\frac{100sin60}{1}\\ =100*\frac{\sqrt3}{2}\\ =50\sqrt3\\ \approx 86.6 \)

 

((100*sin(120))/sin(90)) = 86.6025403784

 

Perhaps you do not have your calculator set to degrees  ???

 Aug 2, 2016

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