EF is a median of trapezoid ABCD. what is the value of x?
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I will first reveal the most obvious secret of trig: Most of the problems are 30/60/90 or 45/45/90 triangles of some sort.
The rule to remember is
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Continuing where we left off, a cosine of -1/2 is a 30/60/90 triangle in the second or third quadrant; we pick second, and a little thought tells us the angle is
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integer
In the range we want, that's
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with the minus, so
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The rule to remember is
Continuing where we left off, a cosine of -1/2 is a 30/60/90 triangle in the second or third quadrant; we pick second, and a little thought tells us the angle is
In the range we want, that's