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Given information

1. A woman is standing at a point on the shore of a circular lake with radius 2 mi.

2. She wants to arrive at the point diametrically opposite  on the other side of the lake in the shortest possible time.

3. She can walk at the rate of 4 mi/h.

4. She can row a boat at 2mi/h. How should she proceed?

5. Figure below

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Let be the center of the circle as given in above figure. 

Therefore in

 

Therefore    

Therefore  

Therefore  

Therefore from law of Sines in we have

 

Therefore  

We have (

 

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