A plane is 160 miles north and 85 miles east of an airport. If the pilot wants to fly directly to the airport, what bearing should be taken?

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anonymous · Answer

if the question is asking for the bearing, would the answer be in degree?

anonymous · Answer

Basic trigonometry should help with this problem. We can define a right triangle with one leg as 160 miles and the other 85 miles, with the hypotenuse being the straight line from the pilot's current position to the airport.

anonymous · Answer

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they want you to find angle "a" in terms of degrees North, East, South, and/or West (i.e. 30 degrees North of East)

anonymous · Answer

The airport is the origin of the graph above.