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Let ABC be a triangle with angle B=90 degrees, angle C=30 degrees and AB=5 Find the length of the angle bisector from A to BC (right to 2 decimal places).

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I don't know much but it's a 30-60-90 degree triangle and the bisector would bisect A in half and A is 60 so 30? This may be wrong wait for confirmation from somebody else.

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adding on, now that the bisected angle is 30 degrees, we know that the smaller triangle with the red hypotenuse is a 30-60-90 degree triangle too.

We can calculate the red line now.

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Let ABC be a triangle with angle B=90 degrees, angle C=30 degrees and AB=5 Find the length of the angle bisector from A to BC (right to 2 decimal places).

Let the intersection of  BC and the angle bisector be D

There are differnt ways to do this depending on what topics you have done.

Here is a trigonometry solution but it can be done without trig if this makes no sense to you.

If you do not know trig you can use similar triangles.

triangle ABC is a 30-60-90 triangle just as OlympusHero and calculatorUser have already pointed out.

So

$$cos30^\circ =\frac{\sqrt3}{2}\\ so\\ \frac{5}{AD}=\frac{\sqrt3}{2}\\ \frac{AD}{5}=\frac{2}{\sqrt3}\\ AD=\frac{10}{\sqrt3}\\ AD=\frac{10\sqrt3}{3}$$