You are working at a radar station for the Coast Guard. While everyone else is out to lunch, you hear a distress call from a sinking ship. The ship is located at a distance of 51.2 km from the station, at a bearing of 36° west of north. On your radar screen you see the location of four other ships as follows: (in the figure) Quick! which ship do you contact to help the sinking ship? Which ship will get there in the shortest time interval? Assume that each ship would accelerate quickly to its maximum speed and then maintain that constant speed in a straight line for the entire trip to the sinking ship.
You are working at a radar station for the Coast Guard. While everyone else is out to lunch, you hear a distress call from a sinking ship. The ship is located at a distance of 51.2 km from the station, at a bearing of 36° west of north. On your radar screen you see the location of four other ships as follows: (in the figure) Quick! which ship do you contact to help the sinking ship? Which ship will get there in the shortest time interval? Assume that each ship would accelerate quickly to its maximum speed and then maintain that constant speed in a straight line for the entire trip to the sinking ship.
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You are working at a
hear a distress call from a sinking ship. The ship is located at a distance of 51.2 km from the station,
at a bearing of 36° west of north. On your radar screen you see the location of four other ships as
follows: (in the figure)
Quick! which ship do you contact to help the sinking ship? Which ship will get there in the shortest time interval? Assume that each ship would accelerate quickly to its maximum speed and then maintain that constant speed in a straight line for the entire trip to the sinking ship.
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134.4
CLOSE
Bearing
Maximum speed (km/h)
Ship Distance from Station (km)
36.1
1
42° W of N
30.0
37.3
61° W of N
38.0
10.2
36° W of N
32.0
51.2
79° W of N
45.0
II
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