For each of the following triangles,
determine the lengths of the unlabelled sides,
measures of the unlabelled angles, and the area.
Are any of the triangles above not uniquely defined by the information given?
I.e. when determining the missing information about these triangles
were there any that had multiple right answers?
Staring at ground level, Harriet the hiker climbed 2300' up a hill
that had an incline (grade) of 17°.
She descended the other, steeper side of the hill,
reaching ground level after travelling only 1700'.
What was the average grade of the path of her descent?
Larry the lineman has just secured a 50' guy-wire
from the top of an electrical pole to the ground away from the pole’s base.
The wire makes a 62° angle with the ground.
He needs to secure a second guy-wire on the other side of the pole
that anchors to the ground 43' from the first guy-wire’s anchor.
How long does the second guy-wire need to be?
