00:01
Okay, our figure looks like this.
00:03
We're just given the one angle down below 44 degrees.
00:08
And we're also given that we've got these isosceles triangles on the left and right.
00:14
And we've got to find that angle on top.
00:17
So my strategy for these, rather than worrying about, well, how am i going to get that angle on the top? i just try to find everything that i can and about this triangle.
00:34
And unfortunately, i don't know a lot about that bottom triangle.
00:39
So that 44 doesn't seem to help me too much.
00:43
So let's start with the isosceles triangles.
00:45
Like let's say we already used x.
00:50
So i know the base angles of isosceles triangles are the same.
00:55
So what if i called this y, then this would have to be y.
00:59
Oh, and then notice we've got a vertical angle.
01:02
This would have to be y as well.
01:06
Okay, so now we've got kind of a connection to that 44 -degree angle.
01:11
How about the other isosceles triangle? let's call this z, and this one z, so then this would be z because they're vertical angles.
01:29
Okay, so i now know that y plus z plus 44 is 180, 180.
01:39
That might be useful.
01:42
How can we get the x involved? well, let's see.
01:48
I've got this larger triangle formed by bac, and i know those vertex angles would be, let's see, this one would be 180 minus 2y, and this one would be 180 minus 2z.
02:09
So i could say that x plus 180 minus 2y plus 180 minus 2z equals 180, and let's simplify that...