One angle is $30$ degrees and the opposite side is $10$. Two other sides are $x$ and $12$. What is the maximum possible area of given triangle?
I used law of cosines to find max length of the $x$ then $A = \frac 12\cdot12\cdot x\cdot\sin(30)$ to find the area. The answer I got was around $55.1769$... is this correct?
Hopefully you'll understand my question.
By law of cosines $$100=x^2+144-2\cdot12x\cos30^{\circ}$$ or $$x^2-12\sqrt3x+44=0,$$ which for the maximum of the area gives $$x=6\sqrt3+\sqrt{108-44}$$ 0r $$x=8+6\sqrt3$$ and we obtain: $$S_{\Delta}=\frac{1}{2}\cdot12\cdot(8+6\sqrt3)\cdot\frac{1}{2}=24+18\sqrt3$$