Surveying Property (Law of Sines)

A surveyor locating the corners of a triangular piece of property started at one corner
and walked 480ft in the direction N36°W to reach the next corner.
The surveyor turned and walked S21°W to get to the next corner of the property.
Finallythe surveyor walked in the direction N82°E to get back to the starting point.
What is the perimeter of this piece of property to the nearest foot?

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Seigi said:

can someone help me sketch out this? I tried by myself but always end up with the wrong answer.

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Prove It said:

Can you show us what you've tried?

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Seigi said:

sure.

when i first read the problemi sketched the triangle base on a regular law of sines one.
It says the 36 degree is on North west and I put it in that direction in the trianglesame goes with the other two.
Then did the mathand since it asked for the perimeter I added all 3 sides after
i used law of sines to find the sides. Basically I got a really big answer(the answer is 1425 ft).

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later found out about bearing and did this
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I tried to make sense of itbut the wording really confuses me

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