Hi. Please help me solve this question.

Question

1) A flying doctor plane flies from its base (B), in a direction of 072degreesT for 80km to reach an outback station (S). From there, the flying doctor travels in a direction 162degreesT for 160km to reach a hospital (H).

a) Draw a labelled diagram showing the different positions of B, S and H and their earnings and all known distances (If you can) :).

b) How far is the hospital from the base?

c) What is the true bearing from the hospital to the base?

Thanks so much!!

Answer 1

I can find two potential issues with this problem & resulting lack of answers:

1) Not many understand the T

2) A larger problem is there is a lot of drawing to fully understand it. Most descriptions would either be very legthy & difficult to follow or look like they were pulled out of thin air... (like this one). I suggest you hire a tutor.

 

IF (big IF) the T stands for angle measured clockwise from true North, we could construct three triangles and subtract or add vert/ horz triangle sides found via Trig functions leading to b) 179.89km c) 315.4degT