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Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. A high school ...

It may be necessary to use Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry to solve a problem. The trigonometric ratios can be used to solve 3-dimensional problems which involve ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...