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In triangle abc, the length of side ab is 12 cm, the length of side bc is 5 cm, and the length of side ca is 9 cm. find the measure of angle a using the law of cosines.

Asays "we are both knaves" and b says nothing. exercises 24–31 relate to inhabitants of an island on which there are three kinds of people: knights who always tell the truth, knaves who always lie, and spies (called normals by smullyan [sm78]) who can either lie or tell the truth. you encounter three people, a, b, and c. you know one of these people is a knight, one is a knave, and one is a spy. each of the three people knows the type of person each of other two is. for each of these situations, if possible, determine whether there is a unique solution and determine who the knave, knight, and spy are. when there is no unique solution, list all possible solutions or state that there are no solutions. 24. a says "c is the knave," b says, "a is the knight," and c says "i am the spy."

From the beginning of the day the temperature rose 15 degrees so that by 4 pm it was 87 degrees. what was the temperature at the start of the day