The Law of Cosines features the 3 side lengths of a triangle, plus the measure of the angle opposite one of those sides.
We want angle x, which is opposite the side of length 39.
Then: a^2 = b^2 - 2ab cos C becomes 39^2 = 36^2 + 59^2 - 2(36)(59)cos x
or 1521 = 3481 + 1296 - 2(36)(59) cos x
Subtract (3481+1296) from both sides: 1521 - 4777 = -4248cos x
-3256 = -4248cos x
-3256
Then: cosx = --------------- = 0.766
-4248
Solving for x: x = arccos -0.766 = 0.698 radian, or 40 degrees (answer)
There are no values of X that equation true .
Answer:
They lose about 2.79% in purchasing power.
Step-by-step explanation:
Whenever you're dealing with purchasing power and inflation, you need to carefully define what the reference is for any changes you might be talking about. Here, we take <em>purchasing power at the beginning of the year</em> as the reference. Since we don't know when the 6% year occurred relative to the year in which the saving balance was $200,000, we choose to deal primarily with percentages, rather than dollar amounts.
Each day, the account value is multiplied by (1 + 0.03/365), so at the end of the year the value is multiplied by about
... (1 +0.03/365)^365 ≈ 1.03045326
Something that had a cost of 1 at the beginning of the year will have a cost of 1.06 at the end of the year. A savings account value of 1 at the beginning of the year would purchase one whole item. At the end of the year, the value of the savings account will purchase ...
... 1.03045326 / 1.06 ≈ 0.9721 . . . items
That is, the loss of purchasing power is about ...
... 1 - 0.9721 = 2.79%
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If the account value is $200,000 at the beginning of the year in question, then the purchasing power <em>normalized to what it was at the beginning of the year</em> is now $194,425.14, about $5,574.85 less.
48:24 = 24:12 = 12:6 = 6:3 (divide each number by 2 or multiply by 2)
