b) A cargo plane is flying west at 600 km/h. A fighter jet on an aircraft carrier 400 km due south of the plane takes off at a speed of 800 km/h heading north. What is the closest that the fighter plane gets to the cargo plane?

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b) A cargo plane is flying west at 600 km/h. A fighter jet on an aircraft carrier 400 km due south of the plane
takes off at a speed of 800 km/h heading north. What is the closest that the fighter plane gets to the cargo
plane?
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