Law of Sines and Cosines

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Week 5 Law of Sines and Cosines 1. Law of Sines: An equation to the length of all sides on a triangle and to the sines of its angles. 2. Law of Cosines: Related to the lengths of the sides of a plane triangle to the cosine of one of the angles. 3. Ambiguous Case: Ambiguous means to open two or more interpretations. Using the law of sines to solve triangles, there is an ambiguous case where two separate triangles can be constructed. 4. Solve the triangle. Given: A = 48° C = 97° a = 12 B = 35° b = 9.2 c = 16.0 5. The given measurements produce one triangle. Given: a = 7, b = 5, A = 70° C = 67.8, B = 42.1, c = 6.8 6. x×tan62 = (x+300)×tan53 = perpendicular x = 300×tan53/(tan62-tan53) = 719.0295 yards AB = (x+300/cos53 = 1019.0295/cos53 = 1693.3 yards Distance between A and B is 1693.3 yards 7. Given: sides, 5,6,7 in miles Island A = 78.46° Island B = 135.58° Island C = 57.12° Given the information… From Island B I would travel a Northwest Bearing to Island C. 8. Heron’s formula: sq.root of {s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)} Sqrt((a^2+b^2+c^2)^2 - 2 (a^4+b^4+c^4))/4 = sqrt ((25+25+16)^2-2(625+625+256))/4 = sqrt ((66)^2-3012)/4 = sqrt (4356-3012)/4 = 36.66060556/4 = 9.16515139 square feet 9 feet

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