SOLUTION: The posts of a hockey net are 1.8 m apart. A player tries to score a goal by shooting the puck along the ice from a point that is 4.3 m from one goalpost and 4.0 m from the

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Question 1162640: The posts of a hockey net are 1.8 m apart. A player tries to score a goal by shooting the puck
along the ice from a point that is 4.3 m from one goalpost and 4.0 m from the other goalpost.
Determine the measure of the angle that the puck makes with both goalposts.

Answer by ikleyn(52890) About Me  (Show Source):
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Use the cosine law.