Question

Can someone help explain this to me?
Ship A receives a distress signal from the southwest, and ship B receives a distress signal from the same vessel from the north. At what location is the vessel in distress located? Describe how you arrived at your conclusion using complete sentences. You must show all work in order to receive credit.

A coordinate graph shows two points labeled 1,1 with an arrow pointing N and 3,4 with an arrow pointing SW.

Answer 1

@dan815 you said you'd help explain?

Answer 2

hey okay

Answer 3

so when they say from the north and southwest these are exact angles they are giving us

Answer 4

oh okay

Answer 5

you want to see where a vessel could be such that it is exactly SW from that upper ship and exactly north from the bottom ship

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I have to describe my steps of how I figured it out I can't submit pictures, so I would put that I first connected the line down in the southwest 'ship' right?

Answer 8

that picture is just to help you get an idea on how to get the points exactly

Answer 9

something exactly south west means 45 degrees downward

Answer 10

which happens with lines of slope 1

Answer 11

and something exactly north means a vertical line

Answer 12

so you want to draw a vertical line from point (1,1) and a slope 1 line from point (3,4) and see their intsersection