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An airliner is at point A and is trying to fly to point B, which is 1000 km due North of point A. The pilot of the airliner wishes to reach point B in 2.5 hr. A wind is blowing from the Northwest (45 degrees) at 100 km/hr. In what direction and at what sp...

I do not understand...this is part of my lab questions for a force table lab, and we have not done Sum of Vectors in class at all... Why would you use 2.5hr in the multiplications? Would you not use the 1000km/2.5hr for the speed in some way? Also...I don...

Ummm...I think I'm just going to give up here..you're way over my head. My teacher needs to do a better job explaining this, if he wants to assign it for homework.

He wants a degree for the direction and a speed that would correct for the wind in the right and allow the plane to get to the point at due north in 2.5 hours, the way you are doing things is so completely foreign to anything I've seen in class, which bas...