Femisco F.

asked • 04/02/18

Bearings and Trigonometry problem



A ship starts at A and travels 20km due east to point b.  It then sails to C which is 10km from B on a bearing of 125 degrees.  What is the distance and bearing of C from A?

Femisco F.

Thanks for the response.
 
I used the Sine rule and ended up with the same answer using the law of cosines:
 
Sin (55) = h / 20  => h = 16.383km
 
But the answer is 28.8km ????
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Femisco F.

Now I can see where I went wrong - thank you sir.
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