How to find the base of an isosceles triangle with the angles and legs

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I want to find the base of an isosceles triangle with base angles of 54.5 degrees and legs with the lengths of 43 with geometric relationships.

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Look at this picture http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/Trigonometry_700.gif

Imagine that $\theta = 90-54.5= 35.5$.

This is a picture of your triangle cut in half, laid on its side, and shrunk to $1/43$ it's size.

We want to know what is the length of the side labeled "$\sin \theta $" is.

Your answer will be twice that multiplied by $43$.

So we plug it it into a calculator and get $\sin 35.5 = 0.58070295571093976105008.... $

So multiply that by $2$ and you will have the base of an isoceles triangle with legs of $1$.

Multiply that by $43$ and you will have the base of your tringle.

So the answer is $49.940454191140819450...... $.