Two boats
Two boats are located from a height of 150m above the lake's surface at depth angles of 57° and 39°. Find the distance of both boats if the sighting device and both ships are in a plane perpendicular to the lake's surface.
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- absolute value
- subtraction
- planimetrics
- right triangle
- triangle
- The Law of Cosines
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