Sunday, March 21, 2010

alaina's blog, 21 march 2010

law of sins :)

sinA/a=sinB/b=sinC/c

*only used when you have pairs, an angle and the side opposite of it.
*setting up a proportion.

Ex: a civil engineer wants to determine the distance from points A and B to an inaccessable point C. from direct measurement -- AB=25m,
first you would draw a diagram and lable EVERYTHING. Then, choose your pairs. Finally set up a proportion.

(sin50/25)=(sin20/B)
cross multiply--Bsin50=25sin20
divide by sin50
B=11.162m

you would follow the same process to find side "a".


I still don't understand integral coefficients if anyone wants to help.

1 comment:

  1. to solve for integral coefficients all you have to do is factor the given equation and the resulting X's will be your integral coefficients.

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