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An airplane is traveling 835 km/h in a direction 41.5 ∘ west of north. Find the components of the velocity vector in the northerly and westerly directions. How far north and how far west has the plane traveled after 2.20 h ?

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Lampa20
I assume the graph is looking like in the picture bellow.

North component:
cos(41.5) * 835 = 625.37 km/h

West component of speed:
sin(41.5) * 835 = 553.29 km/h

After 2.2 hours plane will fly:
2.2*625.37 = 1375.81 km north
2.2*553.29 = 1217.23 km  west