I was at sea with my crew when we detected a treasure chest! The radar precisely detected the angle between our ship and the treasure was precisely . Since I was the fastest swimmer (swimming at a rate of ), I volunteered to go get it. After getting my gear on, I descended to the angle which the computer told me. After 10 minutes, I reached the treasure. Hurrah! Facing the horizontal direction from which I came, and starting with my stomach against the ocean floor, I turned upwards, and ascended to the ship. However, it was not my ship! It was that of pirates, and I needed to contact the captain and alert him of the pirates!
The question is, how far away is the pirates' ship from mine (in km.)? Round to the nearest tenth.
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In the above diagram A represents my ship, B represents the pirate ship, and C represents the treasure.
We were given a precise angle of 5 3 . 1 3 0 1 0 2 3 5 ° , and considering it took him 1 0 minutes to travel to the treasure at 3 0 km/h, then the distance must have been 5 km. So now we know
( 5 ) A = cos 5 3 . 1 3 0 1 0 2 3 5 ° = 0 . 6 , A = 3 km, and 5 O = sin 5 3 . 1 3 0 1 0 2 3 5 ° = 0 . 8 , O = 4 km.
Now, it says that facing in the direction of where I came, I turned 6 5 ° upwards from the ocean floor in the direction I came from and ascended. Since we know the vertical distance is 3 km, then we know A 2 ( 3 ) = tan 6 5 ° , and therefore A 2 = tan 6 5 ° 3 ≈ 1 . 4 . Therefore, the distance from one ship to the other is 4 − 1 . 4 = 2 . 6 .