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Law of Sines
For any :

A or b c B a C
I. Model Problems In the following example you will find the length of a side of a triangle using Law of Sines. Example 1: Find the length of b.
A b C 108 33 24 B

Write down known. Law of Sines Substitute. Simplify. Round to the nearest hundredth.

In the following example you will find the measure of an angle of a triangle using Law of Sines. Example 2: Find .
A 23 C 35 45

Write down known. Law of Sines Substitute. Isolate .

Find the inverse. Round to the nearest whole degree. II. Find the length of a side or measure of an angle using Law of Sines. 1. For find c to the nearest hundredth.
c A 77 B 15 23 C

2. For degree.
A

find

to the nearest whole

63 22 48 C B

3. For

find d to the nearest hundredth.

E

4. For degree.
R

find

to the nearest whole

34 12 97 D 42 F d Q 18 78 P

5. For degree.
C

find

to the nearest whole

6. For

find e to the nearest hundredth.

D

43 19 123 B

A F

e 54

59

7 67

7. For

find b to the nearest hundredth.

8. For degree.
E

find

to the nearest whole

A 8 b 153 C 19 27

8 50 D

12 F

9. For . Find whole degree. 11. For Find 13. For ,

and to the nearest

10. For degree. . 12. For

, and . Find e to the nearest whole

to the nearest whole degree. , . Find e to

, and the nearest whole degree.

. Find whole degree. 14. For , and the nearest whole degree.

, and to the nearest , . Find z to

15. For

. Find whole degree.

, and to the nearest

16. For

, and the nearest whole degree.

, . Find d to

17. For parallelogram ABCD below find BC to the nearest tenth.

A 30 20 in 30 D 100 C

18. For parallelogram ABCD below find to the nearest whole degree.
A 25 cm 120 D 15 cm C

III. Challenge Problems 19. For the figure below find BC to the nearest whole number. .
A

20. For the figure below find nearest whole degree.

D

to the

30 20 65 B C 15 125 D E F G

20

21. Find the height of the building in the figure below to the nearest foot.

35 150 ft

48

22. Fire towers A and B are located 10 miles apart. They use the direction of the other tower as 0. Rangers at fire tower A spots a fire at 42, and rangers at fire tower B spot the same fire at 64. How far from tower A is the fire to the nearest tenth of a mile?

42 Tower A

10 miles

64 Tower B

23. Find the height of the tree below to the nearest foot.

45 20 ft

75

24. Triangulation can be used to find the location of an object by measuring the angles to the object from two points at the end of a baseline. Two lookouts 20 miles apart on the coast spot a ship at sea. Using the figure below find the distance, d, the ship is from shore to the nearest tenth of a mile.

d 49 Lookout A 20 miles 38 Lookout B

25.

. Find DE to the nearest whole number.

D 7 A 80

12

55 B C

VI. Answer Key 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. e 7.96 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 10.2 inches 18. 19. 3 20. 21. 284 ft 22. 9.0 miles 23. 27 ft 24. 15.1 miles 25. 8