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Date Posted: 4 years ago
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Marcus
Marcus
4 years ago
You've cut off the diagram. could you post another post with the full picture? Then maybe we'll be able to help. Because now it's a bit ambiguous.

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I assume the diagram is something like this, because I cannot see the full picture of the diagram.

I use cosine rule and sine rule to work out some angles in the first two parts.

This method of finding length BC in part c is by far the easier of two available methods.

The more difficult method (which you will be looking at, if you have no idea how to do the first two parts) is to let BC be x m and CD be y cm, then formulate two equations based on Pythagoras' Theorem and then equate both equations together.

In other words, since CD is the common length between triangles ACD and BCD,

(Eq. 1)
y^2 = 12^2 - (3 + x)^2
y^2 = 144 - 9 - 6x - x^2
y^2 = 135 - 6x - x^2

(Eq. 2)
y^2 = 10^2 - x^2
y^2 = 100 - x^2

Since both the y^2 refer to the same length CD,

135 - 6x - x^2 = 100 - x^2
135 - 6x = 100
35 = 6x
x = 35/6 = 5.833333... m