SOLUTION: two boats leave the same port at the same time, the first boat heads due north at 15 knots and the other due west at 12 knots, after 2 hours, how fast is the distance between the b

Question 554826: two boats leave the same port at the same time, the first boat heads due north at 15 knots and the other due west at 12 knots, after 2 hours, how fast is the distance between the boats increasing?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
two boats leave the same port at the same time, the first boat heads due north at 15 knots and the other due west at 12 knots, after 2 hours, how fast is the distance between the boats increasing?
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Their relative speed, the speed of either wrt the other, = knots
It's constant, doesn't vary with distance.

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