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Sheena can row a boat at 3.40 mi/h in still water. She needs to cross a river that is 1.20 mi wide with a current flowing
at 1.60 mi/h. Not having her calculator ready, she guesses that to go straight across, she should head upstream at an
angle of 25.0° from the direction straight.across the river.
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