SOLUTION: The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 4:5:6. Find the size of the largest angle in the triangle.

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Question 640990: The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 4:5:6. Find the size of the largest angle in the triangle.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20059)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The sides of a triangle are in the ratio of 4:5:6. Find the size of the largest angle in the triangle. 
The angles will be the same no matter what sides we use, and long as
they are in the ration 4:5:6.  So we may as well take the easiest situation,
which is to assume the sides of the triangle are a=4, b=5 and c=6.

The largest angle C will be opposite the largest sides, c=6, so we use 
the law of cosines for c. We solve for angle C

          c² = a² + b² - 2·a·b·cos(C)

2·a·b·cos(C) = a² + b² - c² 

      cos(C) = 

      cos(C) = 
 
      cos(C) = 

      cos(C) = 

      cos(C) = 

          C = 82.81924422° which I suppose you'd round off to 82.8°


Edwin
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