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A light plane attains an airspeed of 491 km/h. The pilot sets out for a destination 785 km due north but discovers that the plane must be headed 20.5° east of due north to fly there directly. The plane arrives in 2.25 h. What was the magnitude of the wind velocity? What was direction of the wind velocity?

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