SOLUTION: At 10 : 00 a.m. a fuel plane traveling at 160mph left a carrier and headed north to meet another plane in 45 minutes. If the carrier traveled at 15 mph to the dock which bears S 3
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Question 1195109: At 10 : 00 a.m. a fuel plane traveling at 160mph left a carrier and headed north to meet another plane in 45 minutes. If the carrier traveled at 15 mph to the dock which bears S 350W . How fast and in what direction should the fuel plane fly in order to rejoin the carrier as it arrives at the dock, at 12:00 noon?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At 10 : 00 a.m. a fuel plane traveling at 160mph left a carrier and headed north to meet another plane in 45 minutes. If the carrier traveled at 15 mph to the dock which bears S 350W . How fast and in what direction should the fuel plane fly in order to rejoin the carrier as it arrives at the dock, at 12:00 noon?
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which bears S 350W
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What does that mean?
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Directions should be either compass headings or angles with the positive x-axis.
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