SOLUTION: If you sail a ship due east for 50km, then turn and head due south for 80km, how far are you from your starting point, and what is the bearing of your ship from the starting point?
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Question 1047546: If you sail a ship due east for 50km, then turn and head due south for 80km, how far are you from your starting point, and what is the bearing of your ship from the starting point? Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If you sail a ship due east for 50km, then turn and head due south for 80km, how far are you from your starting point,
This is right triangle, using pythag a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where
a = 50
b = 80
c = dist from your starting point
c^2 = 50^2 + 80^2
c^2 = 8900
c =
c = 94.34 km from the starting point
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what is the bearing of your ship from the starting point?
Bearing is in relationship to the the north/south line
Using the cosine of the interior angle of triangle at the point of the ship (S)
cos(S) =
S = 32 degrees
Bearing from the starting point is the = & opposite angle
South 32 East
