SOLUTION: At 9am, a certain boat left a port in the direction of 50° east of north and maintains a speed of 90kph. At that same time, another boat left the same port in the direction of 30�

Question 1181846: At 9am, a certain boat left a port in the direction of 50° east of north and maintains a speed of 90kph. At that same time, another boat left the same port in the direction of 30° east of south. How far apart were the two boats, two hours after they left the port?
Answer by ikleyn(52898) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Find the distances traveled by each boat in two hours.

Find the angle between two boats cources.

Then use the cosine law formula.

Happy calculations (!)

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