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Does the cosine ratio apply to any triangle

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You will see the trig functions applied to all kinds of situations. The most familiar application(s) is the right triangle.

Here's an important non-right-triangle example:

Law of Cosines:

c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2ab*cos C.

Here C would generally NOT be a right angle, but could be either acute or obtuse. Note that if C = 90 deg here, the Law of Cosines takes on the form of the Pythagorean Theorem c^2 = a^2 + b^2.

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