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Answer:

About 2.2

Explanation:

By the law of cosines:


a^2=b^2+c^2-2bc\cos(A) \\\\a^2=3^2+4^2-2(3)(4)\cos(32) \\\\a^2=9+16-24\cos(32) \\\\a^2\approx 4.65 \\\\a\approx 2.2

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