A triangle has sides A, B, and C. The angle between sides A and B is #(pi)/6# and the angle between sides B and C is #pi/6#. If side B has a length of 3, what is the area of the triangle?

1 Answer
Dec 6, 2016

#"Area"_triangle=color(green)((9sqrt(3))/4)#

Explanation:

As can be seen from the image below, the given triangle can be split into 2 triangles with angles: #pi/6, pi/3, and pi/2#
This is the ratios for one of that standard trigonometric triangles
we can see that the height of the original triangle must be #color(red)(3/2 *sqrt(3))#

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and the triangle's area will be:
#color(white)("XXX")1/2 * b * h = 1/2 xx 3 xx((3sqrt(3))/2)=(9sqrt(3))/4#