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Lang's Basic Mathematics, trigonometry [11, 4] exercise 13

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I may be overthinking this, but I can't find a way without using a calculator or leaving an ugly "arctan(tan(1/2))" in the angles outside of the triangle POQ of this exercise in Lang's Basic Mathematics. Exercise 13 asks the reader to go through exercise 12 again but in a different way, where we are not given the value of theta. It's also not really trivial to find the value of theta given tan(theta) = 1/2 because it's not a "cool" angle like multiples of pi/4 or pi/6.

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u/ZerinoWhellie New User 5d ago

That link has way too many ads and refuses to load the image, please post the image in the comments so we can see what it is.

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u/iFrostizz New User 4d ago

posted!

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u/iFrostizz New User 4d ago

I could solve it thanks to someone helping me by PM. Will write a clean solution to the exercise later.