Friday, April 25, 2014

The angles of a triangle are in arithmetic progression. Prove that the triangle has the angle of 60 deg.

We know that the sum of measures of the angles of a
triangle is 180 degrees.


We'll note the angles of the
triangle as a,b,c.


We also know that the angles of the
triangle are the terms of an a.p.


So, we can write the
angles as:


b = a + d


c = b +
d


d is the common difference of the arithmetic
progression.


The sum of the angles is 180
degrees.


a + b + c = 180


We'll
substitute  b and c by the relations above.


a + a + d + a +
d + d = 180


We'll combine like
terms:


3a + 3d = 180
degrees.


We'll factorize by
3:


3(a + d) = 180


We'll divide
by 3:


a + d = 60


But a + d is
the measure of the angle b, so the angle b is of 60
degrees.


a + d = b =  60
degrees

No comments:

Post a Comment

How is Anne's goal of wanting "to go on living even after my death" fulfilled in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?I didn't get how it was...

I think you are right! I don't believe that many of the Jews who were herded into the concentration camps actually understood the eno...