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Given information

At noon, ship  is  west of ship  .

Ship A is sailing east at  and

ship  is salling north at .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

 

Find the equation that relates the quantities

The Pythagoras theorem states that for a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Consider the below figure from part  

hypotenuse

and are the other two sides

Then, apply Pythagoras theorem

 

 

 

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