Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 2:45pm.
the best way I could think of is break the distances into horizontal (x) and vertical (x) components and use Pythagorean theorem to find the distance of the ship from point A.
x= 57cos188 + 37cos330
y= 57sin188 + 37sin330
x^2 + y^2 = c^2
find c.
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