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Vector A with arrow has a magnitude of 5.00 units, vector B with arrow has a magnitude of 9.00 units, and the dot product A with arrow · B with arrow has a value of 40.. What is the angle between the directions of A with arrow and B with arrow? answer in degrees and please show work.

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Answer:
\theta =27.26^(\circ)

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Vector A has magnitude of 5 units

Vector B has magnitude of 9 units

Dot product of A and B is 40

i.e.


A\cdot B=|A||B|cos\theta


40=5* 9* cos\theta


cos\theta =(8)/(9)=0.889


\theta =27.26^(\circ)

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