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

Banning asked Aug 17, 2023

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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:

Then the right answer is 9.1391.

Todd Menier answered Aug 23, 2023

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