SOLUTION: If you are given 3 sides of a triangle, explain how you would find all three angles?

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Question 1091279: If you are given 3 sides of a triangle, explain how you would find all three angles?
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
KNOWN sides a, b, c;
Unknown angle measure opposite of each of those sides, A, B, C;

Find any angle, for example, at point C:
------Law Of Cosines
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-----and then inverse cosine to find angle at C.

More than one way, to continue.

Answer by MathTherapy(10553)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

If you are given 3 sides of a triangle, explain how you would find all three angles?
With sides being a, b, and c, use Law of Cosines, as follows:  

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