Finding velocity components for a projectile at 40 degrees

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Homework Statement


A golfball is hit with a velocity of 25m/s at an angle of 40 degrees above the horizontal. What are the horizontal and vertical components of the velocity?

i don't want the answer that's not my objective... just the correct formula cause I've been using all these mathematic equations which are getting me nowhere

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think of it as a triangle with the trajectory as the "hypotenuse". The x component would be vcosx and the vertical component would be vsinx