Geometry-ish math problem

I'd like help from anyone who'd like to take a stab at this one.

Everyone else, sorry to post all my math here, Tangie is away on her AIM right now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/tman2093/Math1.jpg

Thanks

I IMed you that you need to use trig (sohcahtoa) to solve that problem. I need to type up my lesson plans right now, or I'd solve it now for you. If you still need help solving it, I will try to hop back on here before I go out for the evening and solve it quickly.

d=5.46km


Use Sin law to figure out a, and then use sin=d/a to figure out d.

EDIT: the angle used for corner C in the big triangle is the two angles added together

I love how my teacher doesn't teach things. It ticks me off that she assigns stuff and doesn't teach a lick of it, nor does this book show how to do alot of the problems it has for students to work.

Apparently I'm supposed to know about Sin laws. All the teacher told my class was SOH CAH TOA.

/Rant, and thanks to all that helped :)

ahh that takes me back.. what is that? algebra 2/trig?

Here's a little rhyme to remember the rules of trig:

Some Old Hens Cackle And Howl Till Old Age

Sin=opp/hypot
Cos=adj/hypot
Tan=opp/adj

Did your math teacher really not teach you this stuff?

I use it everyday in my work.

My math teacher never taught us Soh Cah Toa...she just said sin=opp/hyp etc...

And my math teacher in college is horrid. I teach myself thanks to the textbook.

My teacher taught it. I just never listened.

:)

LOL well then that's your fault now isn't it?





Math sucks, Physics rules all. Well appplying mathematical equations in real-life situations just makes things more fun

My teacher taught it. I just never listened.

:)

:iagree: ... all I heard when the teacher was talking was blah, blah, blah .....

I'd like help from anyone who'd like to take a stab at this one.

Everyone else, sorry to post all my math here, Tangie is away on her AIM right now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/tman2093/Math1.jpg

Thanks


Dude...what the fuck?...I had the same problem in our Calculus/Trig book except yours has color, you bastard!

I'd look for it right now but you've already got the answer.

Those were the days of good ole math.

It's Pre-calculus, and the book sucks so bad, you can't teach yourself from it. Thankfully I've got my friends at AF for the occasional math question.

The teacher said yesterday that 5.46 was correct. Thanks for the help everyone.

I'm so glad I'm so glad to be a liberal arts major. Yet, I still managed to waste so much time on advance math in school. 7 years I was ahead of everyone else for for me to come to freakin' college to take Finite Math...

Gold stars on the forehead for all the math wizards in this forum ... :thumbsup:

Once again, a math problem that wouldn't need to be done in the real world. The Park Rangers in the fire towers would consult the chart that tells them where the fire is. :D

But of course there's the person that made up the charts that needed the math in the first place. :mad:

:lol:

I hear that. I was always questioning stuff like that in school.

"How am I gonna use this theorem when I go home tonight and have to shovel my driveway?"

Trust me, my applied mechanics course uses almost all math functions for one stupid question.

Uh, that would be the thrust vector formed between your upper and lower arm, plus the steering vector supplied by your other arm, divided by the friction modifier of the snow and affected by the physics of the blade angle and the incidence of irregularities in the surface being shoveled.

Solution: Your back is sore after 6 hours of shoveling. :lol2:

Uh, that would be the thrust vector formed between your upper and lower arm, plus the steering vector supplied by your other arm, divided by the friction modifier of the snow and affected by the physics of the blade angle and the incidence of irregularities in the surface being shoveled.

Solution: Your back is sore after 6 hours of shoveling. :lol2:

Blah, Blah, Blah .... Seeing that I'm not a math wizard, I would not waste MY TIME shovelling the snow. I would use a snowblower !!

Or better yet ... pay a couple of neighbourhood kids to shovel it for me !! No complex math needed "here's $20.00 bucks ... shovel my driveway .. split however you want ..." :rofl:

DONE ... I don't need no stinking math !!!