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document.write( "     A good day to you!  Please help me in finding a solution to this word problem involving oblique triangles, here it goes:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Two trains start at the same time from the same station moving along straight tracks with an angle of 42.7°.  One train runs at a rate of 40 mph and the second train at 55 mph.  What is their distance after 25 minutes, if the second train makes an angle of 50.3° with the first train?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Change 25 minutes into hours, <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=25%2F60=highlight_green%285%2F12%29 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"25%2F60=highlight_green%285%2F12%29\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > hours.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The situation can be described using Law Of Cosines,<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If one train follows a, then <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=a=%2840%2Amiles%2Fhour%29%2A%285%2F12%29%2Ahour ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"a=%2840%2Amiles%2Fhour%29%2A%285%2F12%29%2Ahour\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >;<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and the other train follows b, <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=b=%2855%2Amiles%2Fhour%29%285%2F12%29%2Ahour ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"b=%2855%2Amiles%2Fhour%29%285%2F12%29%2Ahour\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "You would be calculating, then computing c. </SPAN>\n" );
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