Which reason shows best why the us would keep the philippines as a territory causing the philippine-american war?

Probably the biggest reason that the Philippines is strategically placed right in the Pacific region where Japan, Korea, China, Australia and other nations are. At the turn of the 20th century this would be a key asset of the United States in keep military forces in that region of the world in case any trouble were to break out 

Remember soh-cah-toasoh: cah: toa: now, looking at the picture we can see that we have an angle, the hypotenuse and want to find the value of the adjacent side to the angle. so we use cah to find the adjacent angle. plug in what we have: we need to solve for x now so we get it by itself on one side: plug this into your calculator and you'll find that: