A ferryboat is traveling in a direction 22.0° north of east with a speed of 3.16 m/s relative to the water. A passenger is walking with a velocity of 2.53 m/s due east relative to the boat. What is (a) the magnitude and (b) the direction of the velocity of the passenger with respect to the water? Give the directional angle relative to due east. (a) Number i (b) Number i Units Units

A ferryboat is traveling in a direction 22.0° north of east with a speed of 3.16 m/s relative to the water. A passenger is walking with a velocity of 2.53 m/s due east relative to the boat. What is (a) the magnitude and (b) the direction of the velocity of the passenger with respect to the water? Give the directional angle relative to due east. (a) Number i (b) Number i Units Units

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A ferryboat is traveling in a direction 22.0° north of east with a speed of 3.16 m/s relative to the water. A passenger is walking with a
velocity of 2.53 m/s due east relative to the boat. What is (a) the magnitude and (b) the direction of the velocity of the passenger with
respect to the water? Give the directional angle relative to due east.
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