I'm a ratio that describes the relationship between two sides of a right triangle. What am I called?
Category: Math · Difficulty: hard
Hint: Consider the opposite and adjacent sides.
Answer
Tangent
Explanation
The tangent of an angle is the ratio of the length of the opposite side to the adjacent side.
This is a hard math riddle — a tricky one that takes a little thought. The answer is Tangent.
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