The battleship US Tennessee is 110 miles due south of the destroyer USS Alaska and is sailing north at 40 mph. If the USS Alaska is sailing east at 25 mph, how long will it be before the distance between the ships is at a minimum? Express your answer in hours and minutes, rounded to the nearest minute.

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Scalars and Vectors

Scalars and Vectors are the classification of physical quantities that are used to denote various terms in physics.