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Problem
Ajay is standing at point near Pontianak, Indonesia, latitude and longitude. Billy is standing at point near Big Baldy Mountain, Idaho, USA, latitude and longitude. Assume that Earth is a perfect sphere with center What is the degree measure of
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
This solution refers to the Diagram section. Let be the orthogonal projection of onto the equator. Note that and Recall that longitude is the same as longitude, so We obtain the following diagram: Without loss of generality, let For tetrahedron 1. Since is an isosceles right triangle, we have 2. In we apply the Law of Cosines to get 3. In right we apply the Pythagorean Theorem to get 4. In we apply the Law of Cosines to get so degrees.
Final answer
C