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Navigation problem in pre calc.

From Boston, MA to Portland, ME, a plane flies 650 miles at a bearing of 48 degrees. From Portland to Newport, RI, the plane flies 810 miles at a bearing of 115 degrees. Find the distance from Boston to Newport and the bearing from Boston to Newport.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (18 minutes after post)

It has been at least 8 years since I took Pre-calc, and all I remember is that you probably need to use the rules of sin, cosin and tangent for this answer.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (54 minutes after post)

I know, but since it isn’t a 90 degree triangle I need to do something else before I can use the trig functions. The problem is that I don’t know what.

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