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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

Are you familiar with the law of sines and the SSA case?

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

it might help to draw the pic

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

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jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

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jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

what angle can we find out using the law of sines?

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

30*sin(54)/20 is not equal to -0.83818 I'm not sure how you're getting that

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

maybe

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

I'm getting 30*sin(54)/20 = 1.21352549156242

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

the arcsine of that is undefined since sine only goes from -1 to 1

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

weird

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

yeah because we get 1.21352549156242 which leads to arcsin(1.21352549156242) = undefined, this means no triangle is possible

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

you're welcome and I'd try to find out why that glitch happened or just use another calc entirely

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

i see, that explains a lot

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