we are given
A woman walks due east on the deck of a ship at 4 mi/h.
the ship is moving south at a speed of 24 mi/h
so, firstly, we will draw diagram
so, we have
now, we can use Pythagoras theorem
now, we can plug values
and we get
so,
the speed of the woman relative to the surface of the water is 24.33 mi/h .......Answer
