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TheCricketer
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I love geocaching and a problem that recently came up is:
A--------------B------------C (not to scale)
Find the distance of AB if the proportion of AC:BC is equal to BC:AB. Substituting a for AB, b for BC and c for AC, I come up with:
a+b=c where c/b=b/a
I'm at a loss here. When I put it in WA it comes up with the answer (although looking at the answer, I have no idea how it calculated it) and I was able to "brute force" my answer as well and get the right answer (thanks Excel) but I want to know the math behind it. The actual values are irrelevant as I want to get to the simplified formulas.
A--------------B------------C (not to scale)
Find the distance of AB if the proportion of AC:BC is equal to BC:AB. Substituting a for AB, b for BC and c for AC, I come up with:
a+b=c where c/b=b/a
I'm at a loss here. When I put it in WA it comes up with the answer (although looking at the answer, I have no idea how it calculated it) and I was able to "brute force" my answer as well and get the right answer (thanks Excel) but I want to know the math behind it. The actual values are irrelevant as I want to get to the simplified formulas.