SOLUTION: Otis starts out hiking from a camp at point A on a course 25.5° from the line through A and a town at point B 12km away. He heads for a ridge at point C intending to change directi
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Question 1117417: Otis starts out hiking from a camp at point A on a course 25.5° from the line through A and a town at point B 12km away. He heads for a ridge at point C intending to change direction there and head for the town, but when he arrives at C he finds that the trail marker saying "10km to town B " has fallen down. By what angle should he know turn in order to head straight for B?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is an ambiguous case, but since angle C is clearly obtuse from the scale diagram, we can assert:
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Turn angle is then:
You can do the calculator work.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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