A beach has two floating docks. One is 650 meters east of the lifeguard stand. The other is 60° southeast and 750 meters from the lifeguard stand. The distance between the docks is____ Rounded to the nearest meter.A) 589B) 705C) 792D) 861
Accepted Solution
A:
using the cosine law
Cos60 = (650^2 +750^2 - x^2)/(2*650*750) x is the distance between them