Find the resultant of each set of displacements: 60 km due south, then 90 km at 15 degrees north of west, and then 75 km at 45 degrees north of east. I know the answer is 38 km at 25 degrees north of west.

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undeadknight26 · Answer

So what do you need?  How to get there?

summersnow8 · Answer

yeah, I need help with how to solve it.

undeadknight26 · Answer

This seems like physics ._.
@hba You good in Physics?

undeadknight26 · Answer

Im new to physics lol

summersnow8 · Answer

ok, @undeadknight26 thanks for trying

princeharryyy · Answer

can you draw the figure

summersnow8 · Answer

a figure isn't given, but this is the figure i have drawn

princeharryyy · Answer

until you can't draw it you can't solve it.

summersnow8 · Answer

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princeharryyy · Answer

try solving it now!

princeharryyy · Answer

ok! leave it! HOW DID YOU SOLVED IT!

summersnow8 · Answer

I don't know how to solve it, that's why I am asking for help

princeharryyy · Answer

oh!!!!

princeharryyy · Answer

ok

zepdrix · Answer

woops let fix your graph a sec :)
15 `north` `of west` means we start by facing west, and rotating up 15 degrees.

zepdrix · Answer

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zepdrix · Answer

So what are we doing?
Adding up these vectors? :O

zepdrix · Answer

That resultant shinanigans and all that? +_+

zepdrix · Answer

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