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ShadowUmbre wrote at 2011-08-02 16:56:54
There's actually an easier way:



Take the length of the hypotenuse for both similar triangles and add them. You're on the right track.



To find each hypotenuse, take the sin (or cos or tan) of the angle theta (depending on which values you're given) of each triangle, and add them.

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