Given two sides and (the sine of) the included angle of a triangle, how to find the third side

trigonometry

I have trouble with calculating Triangle Trigometrics. I have 2 sides of a triangle and an angle, and I want to use these to calculate the 3rd side.

An example question might look like:

You have $\triangle ABC$ with sides $AB$, $BC$, $CA$ and angles $A$, $B$, $C$ in each corner. Find side $AB$, given triangle is an isosceles triangle, $C$ corner angle is an obtuse angle, sides $AB=9$, $BC=9$, and $\sin C=5/6$.

I used all the different formulas from the textbook, yet I can't manage to get a consistent formula to solve this.

Any help on how to solve a question like this? I mean the formula to figure out something like this. What do I need to use?

Best Answer

Because triangle is isosceles, all you need to do is to draw a height from point $B$ to $AC$. Let $D$ be the intersection of the height and $AC$. We also know that this height is a median so $AC=2DC=2BC\cos C=2BC\sqrt{1-\sin^2C}$.
I assume that you have a typo and $C$ is an acute angle, it's impossible for it to be obtuse.

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