A hiker starts walking due west from Sasquatch Point and gets to the Chupacabra Trailhead before she realizes that she hasn’t reset her pedometer. From the Chupacabra Trailhead she hikes for 7 miles along a bearing of N61°W which brings her to the Muffin Ridge Observatory. From there, she knows a bearing of S75°E will take her straight back to Sasquatch Point. How far will she have to walk to get from the Muffin Ridge Observatory to Sasquach Point, to the  nearest tenth of a mile?  ______miles

Trigonometry (11th Edition)
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Chapter1: Trigonometric Functions
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Problem 1RE: 1. Give the measures of the complement and the supplement of an angle measuring 35°.
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A hiker starts walking due west from Sasquatch Point and gets to the Chupacabra Trailhead before she realizes that she hasn’t reset her pedometer. From the Chupacabra Trailhead she hikes for 7 miles along a bearing of N61°W which brings her to the Muffin Ridge Observatory. From there, she knows a bearing of S75°E will take her straight back to Sasquatch Point. How far will she have to walk to get from the Muffin Ridge Observatory to Sasquach Point, to the  nearest tenth of a mile?

 ______miles

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