Trig Word problem

NOTE this is not my work but, I was reading this thread a while back and it reminded me of this. Why are these two people getting different results?

My guess is they didn't make the triangle BED 800m^2 I may be wrong as I haven't properly checked.



25CM-b S0 30cm-cB 9 A :tiangle ABe Sidec= 30cm ideb 2s cm 9ide q- ctinol out the Cosfne Rule formula tor tinding dides. fha N
9 = 22.68/ Cm phen BE Value 15 em t2?. 681 ery 38.68 Cm triangle eDE side REtd =38 68cn nd out the qugle (L) in trangle ARC:
use sive Rufe fomd in thangle RDE:- SinD Put he Value nLE=010-S3-gF L0=56.020, 8ide d 38-680m b sins3.98 38.68 1 O 229 Sin560
 
Please be specific about what you are asking; I don't feel like wading through all of this without knowing what I'm looking for.

If it isn't yours, where did it come from? Is it the same problem, or a similar one? Where is there a difference? Why haven't you checked?
 
To be more specific, I am about to leave on a trip and just don't have time to answer you. But if the question is narrowed down, I may be able to look at it eventually.
 
Same EXACT question but different results. Why haven't I checked, I did have a look but couldn't figure out why they get different answers??
 
I finally had time to look through your work here.

(Have you taken this time to do so again yourself, carefully?? There is nothing going on here that requires an expert, and learning to check your work, or someone else's, is a skill worth the effort. One way to do this is to explain every step as if you were teaching someone else; and imagine that they keep asking, "why can you do that?".)

On the second page, you find angle B in triangle ABC; 53.98 is approximately correct. But then you use that as angle B in triangle BDE! That is not the same angle. From there on, you are using wrong values for both B and D.

Also, it should certainly bother you that you never used the key fact that the area of BDE is 800. If you scanned the problem at the start as you should, trying to imagine constructing the triangles, you should have seen that without this fact, the triangle is not determined.

I'm calling it your work, because whoever did it, you are implicitly approving it by saying you can't find an error.)
 
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