Thursday, April 19, 2012

The area of a triangle is 64 cm^2. Given AB=11 cm and BC=15 cm find angle ABC.

To determine the measure of the angle B, we'll have to use
the following formula that gives the area of triangle:


A =
leg1*leg2*sine of the angle included/2


Since the lengths of
AB and BC and the value of the area of triangle are known, we'll replace them within the
formula above:


64 = 11*15*sin
B/2


We'll multiply both sides by
2:


128 = 165*sin B


sin B =
128/165


sin B = 0.775


B =
50.80 degrees


The included angle ABC measures
50.80 degrees.

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