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document.write( "Also by the law of sines in the lower triangle,\r\n" );
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document.write( "And since  and  are supplementary,\r\n" );
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document.write( "Dividing equals by equals using eq. 1 and eq. 2:\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's only one solution.  There is another solution.\r\n" );
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document.write( "You find the other solution.  It's done the same way as the \r\n" );
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