Question

Can someone please help me?

Two weather tracking stations are on the equator 159 miles apart. A weather balloon is located on a bearing of N 38°E from the western station and on a bearing of N 14°E from the eastern station. How far is the balloon from the western station?

Answer 1

interesting

Answer 2

we could try a sketch first

Answer 3

It helps , but it wouldn´t be N14ª W

Answer 4

or maybe the sketch looks like this

Answer 5

That is the image my book has.

Answer 6

ahhhha I was suspecting ...

Answer 7

Yes thats correct

Answer 8

now to analyse

Answer 9

could you tell me on what math topic this exercise is?

Answer 10

trig

Answer 11

Law of Sines

Answer 12

yes thats correct

Answer 13

just we must find the angles