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Homework Statement
a planet is 5x10^8 km from its sun, from the planet, the sun has an angular size of 1 degree. what is the diameter of the sun?
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The Attempt at a Solution
ive drawn a diagram with the sun and the planet, with the distance between written in and the 1 degree size of the sun on the planets surface. i was thinking of using trignometry, since i know one angle and the length going through the center of the imaginary triangle, but I am not sure, i haven't used trig in a while