Monday, November 7, 2011

Triangle ABC is such that AB=5cm, AC=10cm and angle ABC = 90degrees?

To elaborate on Ted's answer, if you'd first worked the problem in degrees you would have gotten cos theta = 1/2 so theta = 60 degrees. Convert to radians by multiplying 60 * (pi/180) and your answer is pi/3, or (1/3) pi.

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