29. Construct a Triangle ABC Given the Length of AB, the Angle at C and the Sum of the Other Sides
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This Demonstration shows how to construct a triangle given the length
of side
, the opposite angle
at
and the sum of the lengths of the other two sides
.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (April 2018)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The problem was posed in [1, section IX, problem 8, solution p. 295].
Reference
[1] M. Bland, Geometrical Problems Deducible from the First Six Books of Euclid, Arranged and Solved, Cambridge: J. Smith, 1819.
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