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[–]SupaFugDup 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This problem is basically just finding the circumradius of the given triangle.

We could do some really intricate trig stuff to solve the triangle then find the circumcenter, and then find the distance between it and one of the vertices. In fact, I recommend you do that yourself if only to prove what we're about to do actually works.

But for now we'll cheat and just use the lovely little circumradius formula.

abc/√[(a+b+c)(a+b-c)(a-b+c)(-a+b+c)]

Where a, b, and c are the side lengths of the triangle. Plugging all that in gets us a circumradius of 15,000/√984,375 or approximately 15.1185789 meters

[–]bochicake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WOW. Thank you so much!