What is the length of the shorter diagonal of the parallelogram if the lengths of the two adjacent sides of parallelogram ABCD are 8 and 14 units respectively and if the degree measure of the included angle is 60º?
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Dec 12, 2014
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We are looking for the length of the shorter diagonal, which is segment
The law of cosines tells us that