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Old 11-12-2010, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Honus View Post
Sorry to come to this discussion so late, but I am confused.

Do we agree that the distance from the observer to the boat is the hypotenuse?

And that the calculation goes as follows:

distance = 300/sin(15.9) = 1095' ?

Is that correct?
So I would take 300/(.2756)(15.9)

That actually was the original question.
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