Question

Could someone please help with this?

Answer 1

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Answer:

  5.  88.0°

  6.  13.0°

  7.  52.4°

  8.  117.8°

Step-by-step explanation:

For angle A between sides b and c, the law of cosines formula can be solved to find the angle as ...

  A = arccos((b² +c² -a²)/(2bc))

When calculations are repetitive, I find a spreadsheet useful. It doesn't mind doing the same thing over and over, and it usually makes fewer mistakes.

Here, the side opposite x° is put in column 'a', so angle A is the value of x. The order of the other two sides is irrelevant.

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Additional comment

The spreadsheet ACOS function returns the angle in radians. The DEGREES function must be used to convert it to degrees. The formula for the first problem is shown here:

  =degrees(ACOS((C3^2+D3^2-B3^2)/(2*C3*D3)))

As you can probably tell from the formula, side 'a' is listed in column B of the spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet rounds the results. This means the angle total is sometimes 179.9 and sometimes 180.1 when we expect the sum of angles to be 180.0.