We looked at problems involving the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines. You can use these equations with any triangle, they do not have to be right triangles. Depending on the information you have, you use one or the other.
You’ll have two sides and an angle generally or two angles and a side. And as you fill in more information you may want to switch to the Law of Sines since it tends to be less work.
And if you have two angles, you can just subtract them from 180 degrees to get the third angle. The law of cosines is really like a more general form of the Pythagorean Theorem, it has a similar function but does not require the triangle to be a right triangle.
Using memory in your calculator can be helpful for these problems as well since you often need to combine several numbers that are not whole numbers.
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