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Someone help me on this, thats my illustration for it its a lil long

Someone help me on this, thats my illustration for it its a lil long-example-1

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The uppercase letters are the angles, while the lowercase letters are the sides. We have side 'a' opposite angle A, side b opposite angle B, side c opposite angle C.

We have this given info:

  • A = 25
  • a = 13.2
  • b = 25.5

Let's use the law of sines to find angle B

sin(B)/b = sin(A)/a

sin(B)/25.5 = sin(25)/13.2

sin(B) = 25.5*sin(25)/13.2

sin(B) = 0.81642164

B = arcsin(0.81642164) or B = 180 - arcsin(0.81642164)

B = 54.72817392 or B = 180 - 54.72817392

B = 54.72817392 or B = 125.27182608

When rounded to the nearest whole degree, we get B = 55 or B = 125.

However, I'll use the slightly more accurate values of B for the next two sections.

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Let's consider the case that B = 54.72817392

This would have to mean

A+B+C = 180

C = 180-A-B

C = 180-25-54.72817392

C = 100.27182608 which rounds to C = 100

Through the law of sines we can say

c/sin(C) = a/sin(A)

c = sin(C)*a/sin(A)

c = sin(100.2718 2608)*13.2/sin(25)

c = 30.73327084 which rounds to c = 30.7

One solution is

A = 25, B = 55, C = 100

a = 13.2, b = 25.5, c = 30.7

As you can probably guess, the phrasing "solve the triangle" means find all sides and angle measures.

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Now we'll consider the case that B = 125.27182608

We follow the same steps as the previous section

A+B+C = 180

C = 180-A-B

C = 180-25-125.27182608

C = 29.72817392 which rounds to C = 30

and

c/sin(C) = a/sin(A)

c = sin(C)*a/sin(A)

c = sin(29.72817392)*13.2/sin(25)

c = 15.48842618 which rounds to c = 15.5

The other solution is

A = 25, B = 125, C = 30

a = 13.2, b = 25.5, c = 15.5

Check out the diagrams below.

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