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A boat leaves its home port in search of fish and travels 35 km
at 30o S of E, then 10 km due S, then 50 km due E and finally 12 km
at 20o N of E. Having failed to find any fish, the crew throws the
captain overboard and decides to turn home. a. (/4) If the boat is
to sail straight home to port, what direction should it sail and
how far will it have to travel? You may use the method of graphical
vector addition OR addition of vector components to solve the
problem. Express your answer in terms of the magnitude and the
direction of the final position vector.
b. If the entire trip, including the return to port, takes 4.50 h,
determine the ship’s average speed and average velocity in m/s.