SOLUTION: if you know all the angles of an oblique triangle can you use the law of sines or cosines to find one of the sides? why or why not?

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Question 807536: if you know all the angles of an oblique triangle can you use the law of sines or cosines to find one of the sides? why or why not?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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These two oblique triangles are similar (have the same shape):

  

They have the same three angles, but certainly not the same size sides.

So the answer is no, because any two similar triangles have the same 
three angles, yet the sides may be entirely different, as the above two
similar triangles show.

Edwin