Monday, June 6, 2011

Help me with algebra, its super important? ?

Two ships are sailing in the fog and are being monitored by tracing equipment. As they come into the observer's rectangular radar screen, one ship, the Rusty Tu, is at a point 900 mm to the right of the bottom left corner of the radar screen along the lower edge. The other ship, the Bucket of Bolts, is located at a point 100 mm above the lower left corner of that screen. One minute later, both ships' positions have changed. The rusty Tube has moved to a position on the screen 3 mm left and 2 mm above its previous position on the radar screen. Meanwhile, the Bucket of Bolts has moved to a position 4 mm right and 1 mm above its previous location on that screen.



Assume that both ships continue to move at a constant speed on their respective linear courses. Using graphs and equations find out if the two ship will collide.



How do i graph it on the computer? what do i need?!?!

and how do you do the work? im confused help me PLEASE



where does 600 come in? idgiHelp me with algebra, its super important? ?
I have no idea where 600 comes in -- 600 what?



However, you can use a program like gcalc available at gcalc.,net to graph the equations.



There is also a free program called geogebra which you can download and use to plot the points. It will calculate the equations for you. Hint - the first two points are (900,0) and (897,2) -- geogebra will write the equation for you. The second set of points is (0,100) and (4,101) You can get a second equation for these.



Now you can plot the points on gcalc and zoom in to find the intersection points, or you can solve the two equations to find the point of intersection.

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