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An airplane is flying due west at a velocity of 100 m/s. The wind is blowing out of the south at 5 m/s. 


What is the magnitude of the airplane’s resultant velocity?

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You have one vector blowing west and another blowing south.
Thus they are at a 90 degree angle.
sqrt(100^2+5^2)=100.1249
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