#415 - {Official} Star Trek Trivia

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{Official} Star Trek Trivia #415

~~Math Trivia Week~~

This week we will be doing a special trivia week on MATH (a form of random trivia). Next week we will go back to the standard Star Trek questions. The level of difficulty of this math is intermediate algebra, trigonometry, & calculus.

 

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A ship leaves port at noon and heads due west at 20 knots (20 nautical miles [nm] per hour). At 2:00PM the ship changes course to N 54^o W. Find the ship’s bearing and distance from the port of departure at 3:00PM.

 

(Bearing should be N ______^o W)

(Distance should be ______ nautical miles)

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???????????????

 

 

Answering: Do not answer here, send your answers to this week’s trivia questions in a PM to me (master_q).

 

Points: 5

 

 

Master Q

StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com

Edited April 12, 2004 by master_q

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Odie gave me a PM and I want to thank him. He referenced and explained the actual method the military uses. It is different the co-ordinate system that I used in this question. Again ---- thank you. It was informative and I appreciated the PM.

 

 

Answer:

 

approximately N 78.18^o W, approximately 57.4 nautical miles

 

 

Master Q

StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com