Question 1058429
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Your strategy for solving the problem is spot on, however, you are off by a few meters because you rounded your intermediate result to too few decimal places.


*[tex \LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 7.8\sin(38)\ \approx 4.802\,\text{km}]


but


*[tex \LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 7.812\sin(38)\ \approx 4.8095\,\text{km}]


which, to the nearest meter, is 4810 meters.


John
*[tex \LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0]
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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