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Shooting the Sun with a sextant, the first mate on a ship measures the altitude of the n...

Shooting the Sun with a sextant, the first mate on a ship measures the altitude of the noonday Sun to be 35° toward the north on May 20. What is the latitude of the ship? (Solve both graphically and using Eq. 15.1.)

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