He has traveled 8.4 sin55 = 6.88 km north and
8.4 cos55 = 4.82 km east.
The distance he must travel to base camp is 6.88-5.7 = 1.18 km south and 4.82 km west.
Take the square root of the sum of the squares for the distance he has to travel.
That would be 4.96 km
An explorer is caught in a whiteout (in which the snowfall is so thick that the ground cannot be distinguished from the sky) while returning to base camp. He was supposed to travel due north for 5.7 km, but when the snow clears, he discovers that he actually traveled 8.4 km at 55o north of due east. How far (in km) must he now travel to reach base camp?
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i m not satisfied because you dint describe that question with graph
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