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Transcribed Image Text:4. An observer sitting on shore sees a canoe traveling 5.0 m/s N70°E, and a sailboat
traveling 15.0 m/s N30°W. What is the velocity of the sailboat as observed on the
canoe (relative to the canoe)?
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