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David provided us with his solution:
I firstly used the angles calculated in *** and put them on the
diagram. Next I used the fact that $ \sin30=1/2$ (this isn't too
difficult to prove), to find that $z=30$ degrees. From this, I
could work out all the other angles and fill them in:
from this all the sine, cosine and tangent values can be read
off.
For the final part, I noticed when
$x = \sqrt{2} + 1$ and $y = 1$ then $SD$ and $AS$ are the same
length. This makes $SDR$ and $SAP$ similar triangles, and so the
angle $DSR$ is $22.5$ degrees. So we get:
From which all the sine, cosine and tangent values of $22.5$
degrees can be obtained.