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Law of Sines and Cosines Practice with Answers553.?AB?is a line 652 feet long on one bank of a stream, and?C?is a point on the opposite bank.?A?=?53° 18', and?B?=?48° 36'. Find the width of the stream from?C?to?AB.557.?In a triangle?ABC,?a?=?700 feet,?B?=?73° 48', and?C?=?37° 21'. If?M?is the middle point of?BC?find the length of?AM,?and the angles?BAM?and?MAC.561.?Three circles of radii 3, 4, and 5 touch each other externally. Find the angles of the triangle formed by joining their centers.563.?A?and?B?are points on opposite sides of a river. On one bank the line?AC?650 feet is measured. The angle?A?=?73° 40', and?C?=?52° 38'. Find?AB.570.?P?and?Q?are two inaccessible points. To find the distance between them, a point?A?is taken in?QP?produced, and a line?AB?1200 feet long is measured making the angle?PAB?=?26° 35'. The angle?ABP?=?48° 12' and?ABQ?=?106° 42'. How long is?PQ?579.?The sides of a parallelogram are?AB?=?209.16 and?AD?=347.25, and the diagonal?AC?=?351.47. Find the angles and the other diagonal.580.?In a parallelogram?ABCD,?the diagonal?AC?=?521.16, than angle?ABC?=?110° 48' 12", and?BAC?=?27° 19' 36". Find the lengths of the sides and the other diagonal.586.?The diagonals of a parallelogram are 374.14 and 427.21 and the included angle is 70° 12' 38". Find the sides.590.?The sides of a quadrilateral in order are 763.83, 721.75, 547.12, and 593.21, and the angle between the first two sides is 53° 13' 12". Find the other three angles.593.?A?and?B?are two points on opposite sides of a body of water, and soundings are to be taken in the line?AB?at points one quarter, one half, and three quarters of the distance from?A?to?B.?On the shore a line?AC?1200 feet long is measured, and angles?BAC?=?63° 19' and?ACB?=?78° 43'. What angles must be turned off from?CA?at?C?in order to line up the boat from which the soundings are made at the proper points on?AB?608.?On one side of a stream lines?PA?=?586.3 feet,?PB?=?751.6 feet are measures, angle?APB?being 167° 36'.?Q?is a point on the opposite side of the stream. Angle?PAQ?=?63° 18' and?PBQ?=?49° 24'. Find?PQ.612.?To find the distance between two inaccessible points?P?and?Q,?a line?AB?763.4 feet long is laid off so that?AB?produced intersects?PQ?externally [that is, the two line segments?AB?and?PQ?don’t intersect]. The angles?PAB?=?98° 47',?QAB?=?41° 36',?PBA?=?37° 16', and?QBA?=?94° 12'. Find the length of?PQ.Hints553.?You can use the law of sines to determine either of the lengths?AB?or?BC.?The question is to find the distance from?C?to?AB.?That means you drop a perpendicular from?C?to that line and determine its length. You could use the angle?A?and the line?AC?to find it, or you could use the angle?B?and the line?BC?to find it.557.?Same hint as 553.561.?The circles are tangent, so a line from one center to another is the sum of the radius of one circle and that of the other. You’ve got a triangle with sides 7, 8, and 9. You can use the law of cosines to find the angles.563.?The law of sines works well here.570.?Draw the figure. To find?PQ,?first find?AP?and?AQ.?You can find?AP?using the law of sines on triangle?ABP,?and you can find?AQ?using the law of sines on triangle?ABQ.579.?You know the sides of triangles?ABC?and?ADC,?so you can determine their angles. In triangle?ABD?you then know an angle and the two adjacent sides, so you can find the opposite side?BD.580.?First solve the triangle?ABC.?Next in triangle?ABD?you know two sides and you can easily determine the angle?BAD.586.?The "included angle" is one of the two angles between the two diagonals. The other included angle is its supplement 180°?–?70° 12' 38". Let?P?be the point where the two diagonals meet. It is the midpoint of each diagonal, so you know the distance between?P?and any vertex. Use the law of cosines to on two triangles with vertices?P?and two of the vertices of the parallelogram.590.?You know the sides of the quadrilateral?ABCD?and the angle at?B.?You can solve triangle?ABC.?Then you know all the sides of triangle?ACD,?so you can find its angles.593.?First determine the distance?AB?using the law of sines. Then for each of the proper positions of the boat?P,?you know two sides and the included angle of the triangle?PAC,?so you can determine the needed angle using the law of cosines.608.?First solve the triangle?APB.?Then you’ll have enough information to solve the triangle?AQB.612.?There are several ways to solve this one. Here’s one way. Determine?PA?using the law of sines for triangle?PAB,?and determine?QA?using the law of sines for triangle?QAB.?Then use the law of cosines for triangle?PAQ.Answers553.?345.43 feet.557.?490.83 feet.561.?48 ° 11' 24", 58 ° 24' 42", 73° 23' 54".563.?640 feet 10 inches.570.?651.9 feet.579.?106° 18' 46", 73° 41' 14", 452.92.580.?255.93, 372.11, 369.22.586.?231.94, 328.93.590.?125° 6' 12", 70° 57' 54", 110° 42' 42".593.?23° 27', 47° 58, 66° 34'.608.?854.6 feet.612.?920.76 feet. ................
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