Ashipmate set aboat to sail excatly 27°ne from the dock. after traveling 120miles, the shipmate realized he had misunderstood the instructions from the captin- he was supposed to set sail going directly east! how many miles will the shipmate have to travel directly south before he is directly east of the dock?

The shipmate must travel 54.48 miles to the south

Step-by-step explanation:

We need to know how many miles south the shipmate traveled. So, we need to find the opposite side of the 27 ° angle shown in the triangle of the attached image.

To find this distance we use the following identity:

We know that the angle = 27 °.

So:

The shipmate must travel 54.48 miles to the south

answer:   b

step-by-step explanation:

x2 = 16

x can not be a negative number because 16 is positive

the only answer would be positive 8