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lyounamu said:
Ok. I see what you did. I shouldn't have assumed it then (the angles of the triangle).
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so you assumed the 230m was on a bearing of 90 degrees or something?
 
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lolokay said:
so you assumed the 230m was on a bearing of 90 degrees or something?
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Well, yeah. I assumed the straight line as just 'straight' and that's probably why I got the wrong answer.

By the way, how do you know all this? Are you accelerated or something?
 
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lyounamu said:
Well, yeah. I assumed the straight line as just 'straight' and that's probably why I got the wrong answer.

By the way, how do you know all this? Are you accelerated or something?
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I'm not accelerated. We got this same question in class; I didn't think it was very hard though (it just depends on whether you see to use the ratios of x to y, which I straight away did). I don't think there is much to 'know'.
 
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lolokay said:
I'm not accelerated. We got this same question in class; I didn't think it was very hard though (it just depends on whether you see to use the ratios of x to y, which I straight away did). I don't think there is much to 'know'.
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Ok. I thought you did not get to learn this topic until you get into the HSC stage.
 
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lyounamu said:
Ok. I thought you did not get to learn this topic until you get into the HSC stage.
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Nah. It was posted in the prelim section afterall. Just basic trig concepts. (though maybe you're thinking of a different topic?)
 
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lolokay said:
Nah. It was posted in the prelim section afterall. Just basic trig concepts. (though maybe you're thinking of a different topic?)
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Well. When I was in the acceleration class, we were going through the topic so quickly that we didn't get to learn many of the preliminary materials. I learnt that during my HSC year. So...
 
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lyounamu said:
Well, yeah. I assumed the straight line as just 'straight' and that's probably why I got the wrong answer.

By the way, how do you know all this? Are you accelerated or something?
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It's the wording of the question that is ambiguous, I assumed that it was a straight line as well.
 
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tommykins said:
It's the wording of the question that is ambiguous, I assumed that it was a straight line as well.
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Does straight line ever refer specifically to a 090* bearing though? I'm not sure, but to me it seems as though the question isn't ambiguous, it's just that it may cause you to assume wrongly.
 
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lolokay said:
Does straight line ever refer specifically to a 090* bearing though? I'm not sure, but to me it seems as though the question isn't ambiguous, it's just that it may cause you to assume wrongly.
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Yeah I'll just say I assumed wrongly, I cannot be bothered explaining myself.

Thanks for the solution however, kudos to you - great job.
 
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