- SSA is considered ambiguous because there are many different ways to find the same answer. How you interpret it and look at the triangles is the way that you will figure out how to solve it. SSA has many ways to get the same solutions. It is also considered ambiguous because you can get more than one answer.
- You can't just apply the Law of Sines to examples of SSA because it will only give you one answer when you might need to find more than one. Depending on what you get as the height of the triangle, then you will know how many triangles you must find.
- If I were to explain the process of finding how many triangles there are in SSA I would show diagrams like these above. The one on the left is showing that there wouldn't be a solution or any more triangles. This is because "a" or any letter that is across from the first angle is both smaller than the height of the triangle and the "b" of the triangle. It is not long enough to touch the base of the triangle therefore there is no solution. In the triangle on the right, there would be 2 triangles to solve. This is because "a" is both longer than the height and "b." As you can see the blue lines showing "a" are creating two triangles.