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Scaling the right-angled triangle from the unit circle

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I can recognise the right-angled triangle within a unit circle and use proportion to scale to similar triangles.

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There are specific ratios within the two key right-angled triangles defined by the unit circle. The first right-angled triangle has hypotenuse of length one. The opposite and adjacent sides of this triangle have lengths sin⁡(θ) and cos⁡(θ), respectively. The second right-angled triangle has an adjacent side length of one. The opposite side of this triangle has length tan⁡(θ)

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