Finding Angle Given 2 Sides and 1 Angle

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I have heard about the rule of cosine, and other related rules, that someone said I may need to use in problems like this. I have never been exposed to these rules before, so I don't much know anything about them.

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What tool am I supposed to use to be able to solve these type of questions? This seems really hard and time consuming for me, am I missing bits of knowledge that I supposed to know?

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\begin{align} \cos \alpha &= 52/61.3 \\ \alpha &= \arccos(52/61.3) \\ & \\ \cos \beta &= 52/74.5 \\ \beta &= \arccos(52/74.5) \end{align}