Question

drivers looking for a sunken ship have defines the search area as a tringle with adjacent sides of length 2.75 miles and 1.32 miles. the angle between the sides of the triangle is 35degrees. to the nearest hundredth, find the search area...medal,

Answer 1

using law of cosines (x^2 = y^2 + z^2 - 2yzcos(angle)), you get that x = 1.832m

Answer 2

here they probably want you to find the height to find the area. There is something called herons formula. it says Area of a triangle = sqrt(p(p-a)(p-b)(p-c)) were p is half the perimeter. so p = 2.951m. Now area of triangle = 1.04miles