A Diving Dilemma!

Geometry Level 3

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 53.13010235 ° 53.13010235° . Since I was the fastest swimmer (swimming at a rate of 30 k m / h 30 km/h ), 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 65 ° 65° 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.

Details & Assumptions

  • The sea floor is completely flat.


The answer is 2.6.

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1 solution

Feathery Studio
Jun 25, 2015

In the above diagram A A represents my ship, B B represents the pirate ship, and C C represents the treasure.

We were given a precise angle of 53.13010235 ° 53.13010235° , and considering it took him 10 10 minutes to travel to the treasure at 30 30 km/h, then the distance must have been 5 km. So now we know

A ( 5 ) = cos 53.13010235 ° = 0.6 \frac{A}{(5)} = \cos 53.13010235° = 0.6 , A = 3 A = 3 km, and O 5 = sin 53.13010235 ° = 0.8 \frac{O}{5} = \sin 53.13010235° = 0.8 , O = 4 O = 4 km.

Now, it says that facing in the direction of where I came, I turned 65 ° 65° upwards from the ocean floor in the direction I came from and ascended. Since we know the vertical distance is 3 3 km, then we know ( 3 ) A 2 = tan 65 ° \frac{(3)}{A_{2}} = \tan 65° , and therefore A 2 = 3 tan 65 ° 1.4 A_{2} = \frac{3}{\tan 65°} \approx 1.4 . Therefore, the distance from one ship to the other is 4 1.4 = 2.6 4 - 1.4 = \boxed{2.6} .

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