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HELP!! physics power factor question?

in a LR series circuit with 188V rms and 52hz source with 39 mH and 28ohm resistor.

What is the power factor of this circuit?

I found XL to be 12.7423 ohms. and tried to find power factor using..

tan^-1 = (XL/R), but I kept getting wrong answer.

can anyone walk me through the process to figure this out?

Thank you.
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