Question: All angles in this question are given in degrees. A farmer owns land which lies between a wall and a hedge. The wall has a

All angles in this question are given in degrees.
A farmer owns land which lies between a wall and a hedge. The wall has a length of 50 m and lies between points O and A. The hedge meets the wall at O and the angle between the wall and the hedge is 28.
The farmer plans to form a triangular field for her prizewinning goats by placing a fence with a fixed length of 25 metres from point A to the hedge. The fence meets the hedge at a point B.
The information is shown on the following diagram.
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(a.i) Find the two possible size of OB, giving your answers in degrees.
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(a.ii) Hence, find the two possible areas of the triangular field.
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All angles in this question are given in degrees.

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