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A boy is moving due east with a velocity `50 m min.^(-1)`. The rain is falling vertically with a velocity of `250 m min.^(-1)`. At what angle and with what velocity rain appears to fall to the person ?

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`254.95 m min^(-1), 11^(@)19'` east of vertical
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