Three towns (A,B, and C) are located so that B is 25 km from A and C is 34 km from A. If <ABC is 110 degrees, how do you calculate the distance from B to C?
1 Answer
Sep 7, 2015
Explanation:
First, let's draw the triangle in question using all the given.
In this diagram,
By the Law of Sines, we know that:
We can immediately solve for
The sum of angles in a triangle is
We now just need to solve the following equation for
None of the angles or values used are "standard" values on the unit circle, so this is the final answer.