Question

A plane is 160 miles north and 110 miles east of an airport. If the pilot wants to fly directly to the airport, what bearing should be taken?

Answer 1

\[\tan^{-1} (160/110)=55.49
270-55.49=214.51

Answer 2

Drawing it will give you a way better picture of the question.

Answer 3

Use Pythagoras to find the hypotenuse and then follow up with the cosine rule to find the angle which I found to be 62 degrees and 1 minute.

Answer 4

Then you subtract that from 270 and you get your bearing.

Answer 5

Most of the times bearings should be to the nearest degree but I did it to the nearest minute.

Answer 6

And you don't need the direction.

Answer 7

thank u
I got it