Calculator Tangent

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Lizeth Rios

April 03, 2023 23:47

Does someone know how to use the test's calculator?

I'm trying to solve this equation from the practice test and in the calculator is a different answer. It's showing a negative number instead of a positive but it's close to 20.

 

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  Christine Williamson Cronin April 04, 2023 00:01

  I think you’re in luck: NCARB no longer requires trigonometry in any calculations. See here:

  https://are5community.ncarb.org/hc/en-us/community/posts/4407215092503-Trig-functions-in-new-calculator-is-missing-

  (I can confirm that I didn’t need trig for any of the exams when I took them last month).

  Christine Williamson

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  Lizeth Rios April 04, 2023 02:14

  What a relief! 🥴thank you so much!

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  Brian Sawyer April 04, 2023 12:23

  In the Calculator I found you need to input 24, then select TAN. That will give you the equivalent of Tan(24).  (So in the calculator 24TAN= TAN(24)) Doing that gives you .44522.

  Then I did 9/.44522 to get 20.21, and round to 20. I tried this out on a few different Calculators to check the math. It's an interesting process. But good to red above that the skill might not be needed.

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  Erik Herman April 12, 2023 07:32

  Make sure your calculator does not have "RAD" turned on as this should be in "DEG" for degrees. This is probably the biggest issue. Also, your parenthesis should be like this...  9 / (TAN(24))

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