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A small boat with a speed of 23km/h relative to the water issailing in a sea which has a speed of 15 km/h relative to the shorein a direction E 16ï‚° N. What direction is the boat heading(relative to the water) if it is going in a direction N 32.7ï‚° E(relative to the shore)?
Hint: Suggested steps: Interpret the situation in terms of therelative velocity equation, indicating the meaning of all thesubscripts. Draw a diagram roughly to scale, including all of theknown information and using the parallelogram rule, on thecoordinate system below. Solve for unknowns using geometry and sineand cosine laws.

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