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    okay well once you get a, then c should be simple right? well the scout walked 6.5 km away from camp, then continued along the arc of the circle! since he was walking in an arc, he was always 6.5 km away. Therefore, when he turned and walked 3.25 km towards camp, he was 6.5 km-3.25 km away from camp. Now that you know how far he is from camp, you should be able to find c.

    now for b, this one is complicated. What I did, was i found the circumference of the circle, since we know the radius is 6.5 km, then calculated exactly what fraction of the circle he had covered: 2pi(6.5)=40.84 km (this is the circumference). Know we know we walked 4.55 km, so: 4.55 km/40.84 km= .111. Okay now that we know he covered .111 of the circumference, we can multiply that by 360 to find how many degrees he covered, .111*360=39.96 degrees. So now look at the question, they want degrees east of north, and the answer we found (39.96) is north of east, so just draw it out and convert!

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