Instructions:Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. A bird catches a fish, flies 100 yards upward in a straight lin
e, and then drops the fish. The fish lands at a spot that is 50 yards horizontally from the point where the bird caught it. The bird flies at an angle of degrees from the ground, and its height from the ground when it drops the fish is yards.
2 answers:
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Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The smallest side of a triangle is formed by the smallest angle in the triangle.
To find the side opposite (formed by) the 20 degree angle, we can use the Law of Cosines. The Law of Cosines states that for any triangle, , where
,
, and
are the three sides of the triangle and
is the angle opposite to
.
Let be the side opposite to the 20 degree angle.
Assign variables:
Substituting these variables, we get:
Therefore, the shortest side of this triangle is 3.5.