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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 8:55pm.

A passenger walks from one side of a ferry to the other as it approaches a dock. If the passenger's velocity is 1.70 m/s due north relative to the ferry, and 4.5 m/s at an angle of 34.0° west of north relative to the water, what are the direction and magnitude of the ferry's velocity relative to the water?

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