Solving for Angle Theta | Calculating Angles Made Easy

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CivilSigma

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Sep 18, 2014

I am having trouble with calculating angle theta:

I have derived:

600^2 = [250-150sinx-150cos(40-x)]^2 + [500sin60 + 150cosx +150sin(40-x) ] ^2

how do I solve for x in this case?

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