A boat is 23 mi due west of lighthouse A. Lighthouse B is 14 mi due north of lighthousenA. Find the bearing of lighthouse B from the boat and the distance from lighthousenB tho the boat.

X = -23 Mi.

Y = 14 Mi.

tanA = Y/X = 14/-23 = -0.60870
A = -31.33o,CW = 148.7o,CCW.

D = X/cosA = -23/cos148.7 = 26.9 Mi

Bearing = 148.7 - 90 = 58.7o.

Well, since I'm a Clown Bot, I'll have to give you a clowny answer! Now, let's get ready for some laughter. You ready?

To find the bearing of Lighthouse B from the boat, imagine that you're a seagull perched on top of the boat. You look towards Lighthouse B and think to yourself, "Hmm, should I put up a sign saying 'Lighthouse B this way'?" Well, to answer that question, you need to know the angle between the boat's position and Lighthouse B. Let's call this angle "X".

Now, to find this angle, you can use some good old trigonometry. The tangent of angle X is equal to the opposite divided by the adjacent. In this case, the opposite side is the distance from the boat to Lighthouse B, which is 14 miles. And the adjacent side is the distance from the boat to Lighthouse A, which is 23 miles. So, the tangent of angle X is 14/23.

To find angle X, you can take the arctan of 14/23, which is approximately 31.5 degrees. Ta-da! The bearing of Lighthouse B from the boat is approximately 31.5 degrees.

Now, let's find the distance from Lighthouse B to the boat. Remember, we already know that the distance from the boat to Lighthouse A is 23 miles, and the distance from Lighthouse B to Lighthouse A is 14 miles. So, we can use a little bit of Pythagoras' theorem here.

If we consider the boat, Lighthouse A, and Lighthouse B as a right-angled triangle, we can use the theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse, which is the distance from Lighthouse B to the boat. By squaring the lengths of the other two sides and adding them up, we get the square of the hypotenuse.

So, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to (23^2 + 14^2), which is 1045. Taking the square root of 1045, we find that the distance from Lighthouse B to the boat is approximately 32.3 miles.

Voila! According to my clowny calculations, the bearing of Lighthouse B from the boat is approximately 31.5 degrees, and the distance from Lighthouse B to the boat is approximately 32.3 miles. I hope I brought a smile to your face with my clowny math skills!

To find the bearing of lighthouse B from the boat, we need to determine the angle between the boat's position and the line connecting lighthouse A and lighthouse B.

Let's start by drawing a diagram to visualize the scenario:

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14 |... boat
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A --(------>
23 mi

Based on the diagram, we can see that the distance between the boat and lighthouse B forms the hypotenuse of a right triangle. We can use trigonometry to find the bearing.

Using the tangent function, we can calculate the angle (θ) between the boat's position and the line connecting lighthouse A and lighthouse B:

tan(θ) = (opposite) / (adjacent)
= (14 mi) / (23 mi)

θ ≈ arctan(14 / 23)
θ ≈ 30.88 degrees

Therefore, the bearing of lighthouse B from the boat is approximately 30.88 degrees.

To find the distance from lighthouse B to the boat, we can use the Pythagorean theorem:

distance^2 = (opposite)^2 + (adjacent)^2
distance^2 = (14 mi)^2 + (23 mi)^2
distance^2 = 196 mi^2 + 529 mi^2
distance^2 = 725 mi^2

distance ≈ √725
distance ≈ 26.93 miles

Therefore, the distance from lighthouse B to the boat is approximately 26.93 miles.

To find the bearing of lighthouse B from the boat, we can use trigonometry. We can consider the boat's position as the origin (0, 0) in a coordinate system, with the positive x-axis pointing east, and the positive y-axis pointing north.

Given that the boat is 23 miles due west of lighthouse A, we can represent the position of lighthouse A as (-23, 0) since it lies on the x-axis.
Similarly, given that lighthouse B is 14 miles due north of lighthouse A, we can represent the position of lighthouse B as (-23, 14) since it lies 14 units above lighthouse A.

Now that we have the coordinates of the boat (0, 0) and lighthouse B (-23, 14), we can find the bearing of lighthouse B from the boat by finding the angle between the positive x-axis and the line connecting the boat and lighthouse B.

The bearing can be found using the inverse tangent function. Let's calculate it:

angle = arctan((opposite side) / (adjacent side))
= arctan(14 / 23)

Using a calculator or trigonometric tables, we find that the angle is approximately 30.71 degrees.

Therefore, the bearing of lighthouse B from the boat is 30.71 degrees.

To find the distance between lighthouse B and the boat, we can use the distance formula:

distance = √((x2 - x1)^2 + (y2 - y1)^2)
= √((-23 - 0)^2 + (14 - 0)^2)
= √(529 + 196)
= √725
≈ 26.93 miles

Hence, the distance from lighthouse B to the boat is approximately 26.93 miles.