SOLUTION: In mountain communities, helicopters drop chemical retardents over areas which approximate the shape of an isosceles triangle having a vertex angle of 38 degrees. The angle is incl

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Question 59307This question is from textbook Precalculus
: In mountain communities, helicopters drop chemical retardents over areas which approximate the shape of an isosceles triangle having a vertex angle of 38 degrees. The angle is included by two sides, each measuring 20 feet. Find the area covered by the chemical retardant.
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Area of a triangle = 1/2 abSinC
=0.5*20*20*sin38
=123 square feet