SOLUTION: An aircraft carrier is 3000 miles southeast of an enemy oil base. Its planes have a radius of action of 1000 miles. If the carrier sails N10OE, how far at least will it travel so t

Question 1195111: An aircraft carrier is 3000 miles southeast of an enemy oil base. Its planes have a radius of action of 1000 miles. If the carrier sails N10OE, how far at least will it travel so that the oil base comes within the range of the radius of action of the planes?
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, ikleyn:
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is N10OE?
Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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An aircraft carrier is 3000 miles southeast of an enemy oil base. Its planes have a radius of action of 1000 miles.
If the carrier sails N10OE, how far at least will it travel so that the oil base comes within the range of the radius of action of the planes?
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        Hey, in this problem, the aircraft carrier sails in wrong direction.

I don't know what the military regulations assign to do in this case - may be, call Pentagon urgently
and ask them for instructions ? ? ?

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To learn what is N 10° E, read from this link

http://mathsteacher.com.au/year10/ch15_trigonometry/11_directions/23dir.htm

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If to speak seriously, if I had such a " Math problems composer " in my team,
I would fire him in next 5 minutes.

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