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Find the length of side x using the law of Cosines Round your final answer to 4 decimal places.

Find the length of side x using the law of Cosines Round your final answer to 4 decimal-example-1
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The law of cosines that we can use to find the length of side x is:


x^2=b^2+c^2-2bccos(\theta)

Having in mind that we already know b and c and the angle theta:


x=√(18^2+14^2-(2*18*14* cos(30)))=9.1391026

Then the right answer is 9.1391.

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