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Seems like I can only work it out if I assume that lineCD is perpendicular to lineAB. I'm not sure I need to know that they're congruent, so maybe it's a typo?

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

There's no way that this involves cosines. I'm making of note that it looks like a typo on the answer and solving it that way.