Q. Two trees, and are on the same side of a river. From a point in the river the distance of the trees and is and , respectively. If the angle is . Then, the distance between the trees (use ) is approximately

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Solution:

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Let and be the trees and be a point in the river. Then, and
Let
Applying cosine formula on , we get,







(approx.)