The cost of a stove to a store owner was $500, and she sold the stove for $1080. What was her percent of profit based on cost?
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Since the angles in triangle ACM indicate that it is a 30-60-90 triangle, we know that the other two sides of triangle ACM are 20 and 10 (30-60-90 triangles have a very specific side coefficient). This means that the sides of this triangle have side lengths 40, 10, and 
. Adding these together you get 50+. Hope this helps!
You have to do Pythagorean theorem:
"a" and "b" are the legs. In this case 7 is a leg and x is a leg
"c" is the hypotenuses, which is 19 here
so...
a = 7
b = x
c = 19
Plug the numbers above into the equation:
Isolate x by subtracting 49 to both sides:
To solve for x you have to take the square root to both sides of the equation:
x = 17.6635
x = 17.7
Hope this helped!