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A plane leaves port A on 23 degrees North East at 340km to port B, it then changes its direction to North West on 60 degrees at 680km to another port C. Calculate the bearing of A from C?
3 years ago

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oobleck
use the law of cosines to get the final distance
use the law of sines to get the angle at C.

or, just note that you have a 39-60-90 right triangle ...
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