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Homework Statement
here is the question: "on a certain night an observer on the Earth determines that the angle between the direction to Mars and the direction to the sun is 50 degrees.
on that night assuming circular orbits determine the distance to Mars from Earth using the knows radii of the orbits of both planets."
now my teacher said the Re(radius of earth) is 1.5X10^11m Rm(radius of mars) is 2.3X10^11 and he also gave the distance from Earth to the sun which is 150X10^6Km
Homework Equations
Im almost sure you ull need to use the Law of cosines