
William W. answered 11/04/20
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The reference angle is the angle the terminal side makes with the x-axis regardless of sign and is always between 0 and 90° (or 0 and π/2 radians). This angle looks like:
You can see that it makes an an angle of 0.4π with the x-axis so the reference angle is 0.4π