Answer: A ship is moving at a speed of parallel to a straight shoreline. The ship is 6

Chapter 1, Problem 55

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A ship is moving at a speed of parallel to a straight shoreline. The ship is 6 km from shore and it passes a lighthouse at noon. (a) Express the distance between the lighthouse and the ship as a function of , the distance the ship has traveled since noon; that is, find so that . (b) Express as a function of , the time elapsed since noon; that is, find so that . (c) Find . What does this function represent?

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