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There is a triangle A B C \triangle ABC with the lengths 3 , 3 3 3, 3\sqrt{3} and 6 6

One of the angles in this triangle is a right angle

x x is the smallest angle in this triangle

What is x x ?


The answer is 30.

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4 solutions

Bill Czy
Jan 12, 2014

It is a right angled triangle. So , assuming the hypotenuse( h ) is always the longest side, we can know that h=6. To find the smallest angle , we must find the arcsin of the shortest side to h , and we found that 3 happens to be the smallest value, which is the hypotenuse. Therefore, arcsin o h = θ \arcsin \frac{o}{h}=\theta , plug in the numbers we get arcsin 3 6 = 0.52359878 \arcsin\frac{3}{6}=0.52359878 , which corresponds to 30 deg 30\deg .

Souvik Das
Jan 8, 2014

Taking hypotenuse as 6 and the other two sides as 3 and 3 root 3, we find cos of the smallest angle. It results in root 3 /2 which is cos 30'

Daniel Lim
Jan 8, 2014

A triangle with the angles 30 , 60 30,60 and 90 90 has the ratio 1 : 3 : 2 1:\sqrt{3}:2 for the length of its sides

We can scale up the ratio to be 1 : 3 : 2 = 3 : 3 3 : 6 1:\sqrt{3}:2 = 3:3\sqrt{3}:6 and it satisfies the lengths given in the question

Therefore, the smallest angle in the triangle is 30 30 degrees

敬全 钟
Jan 8, 2014

It seems like the length given here is quite familiar, since the lengths are in the form of 2 x , x , x 3 2x, x, x\sqrt3 , where x x is arbitrary positive real values. Therefore, this implies to the smallest angle which is 30 \boxed {30} degrees.

not bad

Daniel Lim - 7 years, 5 months ago

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