To get out of the harbor, a container ship sails at a bearing of 240° for 6 km before changing direction due north. If the container ship travels 15 km north from where it changed direction, what is the bearing of the ship relative to the starting point in the harbor?

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Scalars and Vectors

Scalars and Vectors are the classification of physical quantities that are used to denote various terms in physics.