A roof has the shape of an isosceles triangle with equal sides 8 cm long and base 12 m long. What is the measure of the angle of
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Answer:
x = 15
Step-by-step explanation:
Assuming 3x and x-60 are in degrees, you can use:
cos(a) = sin(a+90)
To rewrite the equation as:
sin(3x) = sin(x-60+90)
sin(3x) = sin(x+30)
3x = x+30
2x = 30
x = 15
But, solving 3x = x+30 which simplifies to x=15 is not the only solution to this equation, as you can see in below picture. Finding all solutions is a bit more work, but maybe that is not required in your case.
