given ACT.
What’s more, two of these questions will deal with basic SOHCAHTOA, which you clearly don’t need a
whole semester or year of trig to learn. The other two questions may deal with radians, or the unit circle,
or some of the trig identities, but you shouldn’t worry about these until you’ve solidified a math score of
at least 28.
So let’s have a look at one of these basic SOHCAHTOA questions.
Trig Tip
Don’t worry about
Advanced Trigonometry
concepts unless you are
consistently scoring a
28 or higher on the ACT
Math test. It’s way too
much to learn for only two
questions!
- According to the measurements given in the figure below, which of the following expressions gives the distance, in
meters, from the house to the garage?
F. 40 tan 38°
G. 40 cos 38°
H. 40 sin 38°
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Here’s How to Crack It
