SOLUTION: A boat propelled so as to travel with a speed of 25 ms-1 in still water, moves directly across a river 600m wide, the river flowing at 15 ms-1. How long will it take the boat to ac
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Question 626423: A boat propelled so as to travel with a speed of 25 ms-1 in still water, moves directly across a river 600m wide, the river flowing at 15 ms-1. How long will it take the boat to across the river? Toward what point on the opposite share is the point headed when it start.
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A boat propelled so as to travel with a speed of 25 ms-1 in still water, moves directly across a river 600m wide, the river flowing at 15 ms-1. How long will it take the boat to across the river?
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The boat's speed wrt the Earth = AMP Parsing Error of [sqrt(25^2 - 15^2) = 20 m/sec]: Invalid function '': opening bracket expected at /home/ichudov/project_locations/algebra.com/templates/Algebra/Expression.pm line 70.
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Toward what point on the opposite share is the point headed when it start.
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To travel in a straight line, the boat's heading will be into the current.
The angle from "straight across" is asin(15/25)
=~ 36.9 degrees.
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