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A fighter jet, and a helicopter, H leave the airport, A at the same time. The jet flies 25 km on a bearing of 040° and the helicopter flies 30 km on a bearing of 320°. how far apart are the aircraft?. use a scale of 1 cm to represent 5 km​

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Ok, you will need a protractor, ruler a pencil and paper for this one.

Create a dot on the paper and label that A (airport)

Measure out an angle of 40° from the airport dot and draw a 5cm line (because 1cm = 5km, so 5cm = 25km) that is how much the jet has gone.

From the airport again measure out an angle of 230° (if you dont have a 360° protractor, do 180° then 140°) and draw a line that is 6cm (30 ÷ 5 = 6)

Measure how far the ends of the lines are from each other, then convert the cm into km by multiplying it by 5.

That is how far they are apart in km.

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