degree help: Triangle ABC is a right triangle with angle BAC = 30 degrees and BC = 1. - Help.com

You can’t have an angle of 1 point and 3 lines that isn’t 360.

right. so bc is a segment of a circle? where does the rightangled triangle come into it then? unless that is the segment with the circumference section cut off with a chord, but that seems unlikely.

lynn1319 wrote:
Segment BC is one of the three sides of the right triangle. I’m trying to find the circumference of the circle inscribed in the triangle.

oh right.
as in, line segment.

what is BAC? you can’t have an angle that isnt = 360 that has 3 lines.

but somehow you need to find the diameter. then the circumference is just pi x diameter.
try drawing it?

sorry we havent done that yet. im only 13. but if you just work out the distance from one to the other at the shortest space or medium or somewhere thats the diameter

Here, I made you an image with the info you need to work the problem.

(Because an illustration is easier to understand)

[IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/photouser_29/triangle.jpg[/IMG]

See if you can obtain the answer with that. If not, write back and I’ll show you the steps.

Oops, wrong code. Here’s the image.