A boy leaves station X on a bearing of 035' to station Y. which is 21km away. He then travels to another station Z on a bearing
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Answer:
36.6 km
Step-by-step explanation:
We assume the initial bearing of the boy is 35°. Then he will make a 90° turn to a heading of 125°. A diagram shows the distance of interest is the hypotenuse of a right triangle in which 35° is the angle opposite the side of length 21 km.
The relevant trig relation is ...
Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse
sin(35°) = (21 km)/XZ
XZ = (21 km)/sin(35°) ≈ 36.61 km
The distance from X to Z is about 36.61 km.
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The attached diagram has the angles measured in the usual way for a Cartesian plane: CCW from the +x axis. This will correspond to bearing measures if we relabel the axes so that +x is North, and +y is East.
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