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Trigonometry and Derivatives : Minimizing Distance

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A ship is travelling south at 4km/h , when it sees another ship, dead ahead at a distance of 25km. The second ship is travelling east at 3km/h. What is the closest distance the two ships come to each other

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Trigonometry and derivatives are used to find closest distance of approach.

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A ship is traveling south at 4km/h , when it sees another ship , dead ahead at a distance of 25km. The second ship is traveling east at 3km/h. What is the closest distance the two ...

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