Trigonometry : Trigonometry

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Example Questions

Example Question #11 : Law Of Sines

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Find the length of .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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Recall the Law of Sines:

Start by finding the value of angle :

Plug in the given values into the Law of Sines:

Rearrange the equation to solve for :

Make sure to round to two places after the decimal.

Example Question #17 : Law Of Sines

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Find the length of .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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Recall the Law of Sines:

Start by finding the value of angle :

Plug in the given values into the Law of Sines:

Rearrange the equation to solve for :

Make sure to round to two places after the decimal.

Example Question #86 : Triangles

Find the length of side .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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Recall the Law of Sines:

Start by finding the value of angle :

Plug in the given values into the Law of Sines:

Rearrange the equation to solve for :

Make sure to round to two places after the decimal.

Example Question #11 : Law Of Sines

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Find the length of side .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

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Recall the Law of Sines:

Start by finding the value of angle :

Plug in the given values into the Law of Sines:

Rearrange the equation to solve for :

Make sure to round to two places after the decimal.

Example Question #51 : Law Of Cosines And Law Of Sines

If , find the remaining angles and sides.Los 5

Possible Answers:

None of the other answers.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The Law of Sines is a set of ratios that allows one to compute missing angles and side lengths of oblique triangles (non right angle triangles).

The Law of Sines: 

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To find the missing angle A we subtract the sum of the two known angles from 180° as the interior angles of all triangles equal 180°.

The LOS can be rearranged to solve for the missing side.

 

Example Question #21 : Law Of Sines

If , and  determine the length of side , round to the nearest whole number.

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

This is a straightforward Law of Sines problem as we are given two angles and a corresponding side:

Substituting the known values:

Solving for the unknown side:

 

Example Question #91 : Triangles

If , and  determine the measure of , round to the nearest degree.

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

This is a straightforward Law of Sines problem since we are given one angle and two sides and are asked to determine the corresponding angle.

Substituting the given values:

Now rearranging the equation:

The final step is to take the inverse sine of both sides:

Example Question #21 : Law Of Sines

If  = , and  = , find the length of side .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

We are given two angles and the length of the corresponding side to one of those angles. Because the problem is asking for the corresponding length of the other angle we can use the Law of Sines to find the length of the side . The equation for the Law of Sines is 

If we rearrange the equation to isolate  we obtain

Substituting on the values given in the problem

Example Question #24 : Law Of Sines

If  = , and  = , find the length of side  to the nearest whole number.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Because we are given the two angles and the length of the corresponding side to one of those angles, we can use the Law of Sines to find the length of the side that we need. So we use the equation

Rearranging the equation to isolate  gives

Substituting in the values from the problem gives

Example Question #21 : Law Of Sines

If , and , find  to the nearest whole number.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

We can use the Law of Sines to find the length of the missing side, because we have its corresponding angle and the length and angle of another side. The equation for the Law of Sines is 

Isolating  gives us

Finally, substituting in the values of the of from the problem gives

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