You have to use the Law of Cosines twice here. Let's find angle A first: . Doing a bit of simplifying you get . Simplifying a bit more gives you -544=-696cosA. cosA = .78160919 and that A = 38.6. Actually, now that I think about it we can now move to the Law of Sines to find another angle because the triangle is not a right triangle. Just trust me. Let's find angle B now. and that . sinB = .3565026267 and that angle B is 20.9. Knowing those 2 angles we can find C: 180-38.6-20.9=120.5 and there you have it.
Let x represent the number of notebooks and y represent the number of erasers. (x+y=28) Then, input the cent numbers into the equation. (90x+45y=1800) The 1800 represents the amount of dollars spent. Then simplfy the equation, which gives you 12 notebooks and 16 erasers.