Homework Help: physics

Posted by jill on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 8:27pm.

A sailboat is sailing north on a lake parallel to the shore with a speed of 12 kilometers per hour (km/hr). If a man walking south along the shore has a speed of 4 km/hr, what is the northerly speed of the sailboat relative to the man?

physics - g, Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 7:17pm
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