solution:

We are in equilibrium so the sum of forces in the x and y directions must add up to zero. First we look at where the dingo is attached to cable 3.

eqnarray6

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Now we look at the place where all 3 cables come together.

eqnarray11

Now we plug the value we got for tex2html_wrap_inline40 in (4) into (8) and solve for tex2html_wrap_inline42 .

eqnarray15

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Now that we have tex2html_wrap_inline42 we can plug the number into (3) to get tex2html_wrap_inline40 .

eqnarray28

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