To approximate the area of a lake, a surveyor walks around the perimeter of the lake, taking the measurements shown in the illustration with values below. Using this technique, what is the approximate area of the lake? [Hint: Use the Law of Cosines on the three triangles shown, and then find the sum of their areas.]
vequals40 ft, wequals40 ft, xequals30 ft, yequals85 ft, zequals25 ft, Fequals10degrees, Gequals105degrees
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The approximate area of the lake is
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