Question

A ship at sea, the Gladstone, spots two other ships, the Norman and the Voyager, and measures the angle between them to be 48°. The distance between the Gladstone and the Norman is 4590 yards. The Norman measures an angle of 55° between the Gladstone and the Voyager. To the nearest yard, what is the distance between the Norman and the Voyager?

Answer 1

Answer:

=3501 yards.

Step-by-step explanation:

The three ships form a triangle.  From the Voyager the angle between the Norman and the Gladstone=180-(55+48)=77°

Let the position of the Voyager be V that of Norman be N and that of the Gladstone be G

Then, the distance between Norman and voyager is g

g/sin G=v/ Sin V

4590/Sin 77=g/Sin 48

g=(4590 Sin 48)/Sin 77

=3500.8 yards

The distance between the Norman and the voyager= 3501 yards.