Let x represent BC. Using either ABC or CAB and trigonometric functions, solve for x to three decimal places in at least three d
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and you can expand the numerator if you wish, it won't be simplified further though.
First of all, we have to observe this triangles separated by the height. These small and big triangles are similar according to the Angle-Angle-Angle principle.
a. We can find all of these length using the cosine of the angle, Pythagoras theorem and the principle of the similarity of triangles.
b. According to the cosine of the angle we can write that, cosθ = 12/a = 5/13 and from here a = 31.2. After finding that using Pythagoras theorem, we can write that . According to the similarity of the triangles, we can write that 31.2/d = 28.8/12 and d = 13. Applying Pythagoras theorem we find that c = 5.
c. We already gave the answer for this question in part b