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The law of cosines is used with oblique triangles true or false?

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That's true; the Law of Cosines works with all triangles. With right triangles it simplifies to the Pythagorean Theorem.



User RaymondChou
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Yes.

For example if we know the lengths of 2 adjacent sides and the measure of the included angle we can find the length of the other side.

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