Two position vectors lie in a plane. The first, vector A, points at an angle of 20° below the positive x-axis and has a magnitude of 49.5 m. The second, vector , points at an angle of 40.5° above the positive x-axis and has a magnitude of 75 m. (b) What is the magnitude, in meters, and what is the direction of vector rc, in degrees? Give the direction as an angle measured counterclockwise from the positive x-axis.magnitudedirection° (counterclockwise from the +x-axis)

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Two position vectors lie in a plane. The first, vector , points at an angle of 20° below the positive x-axis and has a magnitude of 49.5 m. The second, vector rg, points at an angle of 40.5° above the positive x- axis and has a magnitude of 75 m.

Two position vectors lie in a plane. The first, vector , points at an angle of 20° below the positive x-axis and has a magnitude of 49.5 m. The second, vector rg, points at an angle of 40.5° above the positive x- axis and has a magnitude of 75 m.

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Two position vectors lie in a plane. The first, vector A, points at an angle of 20° below the positive x-axis and has a magnitude of 49.5 m. The second, vector , points at an angle of 40.5° above the positive x-
axis and has a magnitude of 75 m.

(b) What is the magnitude, in meters, and what is the direction of vector rc, in degrees? Give the direction as an angle measured counterclockwise from the positive x-axis.
magnitude
direction
° (counterclockwise from the +x-axis)

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