A hiker heads across a plain in a direction she believes to be due West. Her compass is defective and her path is off by angle θθ to the North. She reaches a North-South road after walking 12.812.8 miles, but her map shows she should have reached that N-S road after walking only 11.211.2 miles. The hiker must walk miles South to reach her intended destination on this North-South road. The angular error of her compass is degrees. help (numbers) Note: Although one of your answers might use the square-root function (sqrt), your second answer must be entered as a decimal approximation (accurate to at least three decimal places) because all trig functions are disabled from use in this problem.
Ratios
A ratio is a comparison between two numbers of the same kind. It represents how many times one number contains another. It also represents how small or large one number is compared to the other.
Trigonometric Ratios
Trigonometric ratios give values of trigonometric functions. It always deals with triangles that have one angle measuring 90 degrees. These triangles are right-angled. We take the ratio of sides of these triangles.
A hiker heads across a plain in a direction she believes to be due West. Her compass is defective and her path is off by angle θθ to the North. She reaches a North-South road after walking 12.812.8 miles, but her map shows she should have reached that N-S road after walking only 11.211.2 miles.
The hiker must walk miles South to reach her intended destination on this North-South road.
The angular error of her compass is degrees. help (numbers)
Note: Although one of your answers might use the square-root function (sqrt), your second answer must be entered as a decimal approximation (accurate to at least three decimal places) because all trig functions are disabled from use in this problem.
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