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Rewrite hints to show that you shouldn't round intermediate value
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Differential Revision: http://phabricator.khanacademy.org/D9624
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petercollingridge committed Jun 4, 2014
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</div>

<div>
<p>Simplify the right side:</p>
<p><code>\qquad \blue{\sin(<var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var>)} = \pink{<var>SIN_UNKNOWN</var>}</code></p>
<p>
Evaluate the inverse sin to find <code><var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var></code>:
</p>
<p><code>\qquad
\blue{<var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var>} =\sin^{-1}\left(
\dfrac{\blue{<var>SIDES[UNKNOWN]</var>}}{\green{<var>SIDES[KNOWN]</var>}}
\green{\sin(<var>KNOWN_ANGLE</var>)}\right)
</code></p>
</div>

<div>
<p>
Evaluate the inverse sin to find <code>m\angle <var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var></code>
and round to the nearest degree:
</p>
<p><code>\qquad
\blue{m\angle <var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var>} = \sin^{-1}\left(\pink{<var>SIN_UNKNOWN</var>}\right)
\approx \blue{<var>POSSIBLE_SOLUTION</var>^\circ}
\blue{<var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var>} \approx \blue{<var>POSSIBLE_SOLUTION</var>^\circ}
</code></p>
<div data-if="POSSIBLE_SOLUTION === SOLUTION" class="graphie" data-update="triangle">
TRIANGLE.angleLabels[UNKNOWN] = "\\blue{" + SOLUTION + "^\\circ}";
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We can find <code>m\angle <var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var></code> using the fact that <code>\sin(\theta) = \sin(180^\circ - \theta)</code>.
</p>
<p><code>\qquad
\blue{m\angle <var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var>} \approx 180^\circ - \blue{<var>POSSIBLE_SOLUTION</var>^\circ}
\blue{<var>UNKNOWN_ANGLE</var>} \approx 180^\circ - \blue{<var>POSSIBLE_SOLUTION</var>^\circ}
\approx \blue{<var>SOLUTION</var>^\circ}
</code></p>
<div class="graphie" data-update="triangle">
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