Ship A receives a distress signal from the north, and ship B receives a distress signal from the same vessel from the southeast. 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.

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umm · Answer

Any ideas/guesses?

umm · Answer

Also, is there an image/graph for this?

bry1d · Answer

I have absolutely no clue on how to do things like this

umm · Answer

Okay, one second.

umm · Answer

We are given that, Ship A receives a distress signal from the north and Ship B receives the same signal from the south-east.
So, the ship at A will move upwards and the ship at B will move slantingly towards the signal.
As seen from the figure attached, we see that they meet at the point ( 4,2 ).
So, therefore, the distressed vessel is located at ( 4,2 ).

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