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Re: Need help with trig
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2011, 02:19:00 pm »
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Suppose is the angle this new fence makes with the road. Let be the length of the new fence. Using the sine rule you see:

(1)

However the area of this region is:

(2)

Now plug expression for L from (1) into (2) and set A= half of your previous answer. Now solve for and once you know that you can work out the bearings.
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