How do you derive the parallelogram method for adding forces at different angles?

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How does the parallelogram method work to solve one of two forces with different angles? Or better said, how do you derive the method so that I can get a better understanding of it ?
 
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DLeuPel said:
How does the parallelogram method work to solve one of two forces with different angles? Or better said, how do you derive the method so that I can get a better u fer standing of it ?

This isn't an issue of solving "forces". It is an issue of understanding the mathematics of vectors in general and how they add/subtract. So maybe this is more of a mathematics topic than physics.

As phinds has suggested, you need to actually show us sketches and show what you did, rather than ask for a very vague, general question like this.

Zz.