SOLUTION: An airplane is flying due east at 340 km/hr. The wind is blowing 40 km/hr at 34 degrees Southeast. What is the planes actual velocity?

Question 726729: An airplane is flying due east at 340 km/hr. The wind is blowing 40 km/hr at 34 degrees Southeast. What is the planes actual velocity?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
An airplane is flying due east at 340 km/hr. The wind is blowing 40 km/hr at 34 degrees Southeast. What is the planes actual velocity?
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034 degs is not southeast, it's northeast.
Wind direction is the direction it's from.
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