You receive orders to sail due east for 28.2 mi to put your salvage ship directly over a sunken pirate ship. However, when your divers probe the ocean floor at that location and find no evidence of a ship, you radio back to your source of information, only to discover that the sailing distance was supposed to be 28.2 nautical miles, not regular miles. Use the Length table below to calculate how far horizontally you are from the pirate ship.

You receive orders to sail due east for 28.2 mi to put your salvage ship directly over a sunken pirate ship. However, when your divers probe the ocean floor at that location and find no evidence of a ship, you radio back to your source of information, only to discover that the sailing distance was supposed to be 28.2 nautical miles, not regular miles. Use the Length table below to calculate how far horizontally you are from the pirate ship.

University Physics Volume 1

18th Edition

ISBN:9781938168277

Author:William Moebs, Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny

Publisher:William Moebs, Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny

Chapter2: Vectors

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 34P: A surveyor measures the distance across a river that flows straight north by the following method....

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