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The Law of Sines - The Law of
Sines is used for solving triangles when you have one angle measure and
two side lengths - one of which needs to be across from the known angle
measure. It looks like so. The Law of Cosines - The Law of
Cosines is very much like Pythagorean's theorem for non-right triangles.
It is used to solve triangles when you know two sides and one angle, and
the known angle measure is between the two sides. It looks like this (note
that ^2 means squared). The variables can be changed at will. Triangle Properties The sum of all the angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees. Also, the greatest angles are across from the longest sides, the next greatest across from the next longest, and the smallest across from the shortest. Source: "Precalculus - a right trangle approach to trigonometry" - Sullivan, Sullivan. Published 2007 by Pearson Prentice Hall. |
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Definition of Trig - training problem Law of Cosines - the Line of Sight Law of Sines - When you gotta go Law of Both - Observer's day off
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