Explanation:
A. Walk the person around
If a boat is going East at 15mph and there is a water current going southeast at 45° then the boat is being drifted southward. So since the current is going at an angle then it has a x and y component. So Rx refers to the x-component force of the current and Ry refers to the y-component of the current, and |R| refers to the magnitude of these forces.
(Direction) for the fact that it will continue having the momentum at the constant speed in which the engines turned off.
