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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Derive the law of sines and the law of cosines!

OpenStudy (primeralph):

signs or sines?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Sines, lol. not signes

OpenStudy (anonymous):

sorry:) i fixed it.

OpenStudy (primeralph):

okay, pay attention....and feel the wrath of my drawing!!!

OpenStudy (anonymous):

lol.

OpenStudy (primeralph):

first take an arbitrary triangle and develop it to have an angle 90 deg..............

OpenStudy (primeralph):

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OpenStudy (primeralph):

I will use the same diagram for the cosines....

OpenStudy (primeralph):

yo, should I proceed?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yessir

OpenStudy (primeralph):

to extend the above to c/sinC, you can just generalize that since it works for a and b, it works for c. For cosines.....

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Which makes sense.

OpenStudy (primeralph):

kinda got to go. Just extend the lengths to the dotted diagram I drew and use Pythagoras' . Good luck.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Thank you.

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