Question

An airplane leaves an airport and flies due west 170 miles and then 240 miles in the direction S 69.50°W. How far is the plane from the airport (round to the nearest mile)?

Answer 1

@hba @phi

Answer 2

can you draw a diagram and label it ?

Answer 3

can you try to draw the diagram?

Answer 4

did not work

Answer 5

okay, I'll save it

Answer 6

try this

Answer 7

OK.
There are two ways to think about this problem.
one uses trig, the other uses the Law of Cosines

I would use the Law of Cosines... is that what you are studying?

Answer 8

Yeah

Answer 9

First, do you know what the angle is, between the 2 sides labeled 240 and 170 ?

Answer 10

Hopefully you know the "unlabeled part" of the angle is a right angle