Ecotourists use their global positioning system indicator to determine their loc

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Ecotourists use their global positioning system indicator to determine their location inside a botanical garden as latitude 0.002 20 degree south of the equator, longitude 75.640 35 degrees west. They wish to visit a tree at latitude 0.001 59 degree north, longitude 75.644 55 degrees west. (a) Determine the straight-line distance and the direction in which they can walk to reach the tree as follows. First model the Earth as a sphere of radius 6.37 Mm to determine the westward and northward displacement components required, in meters. displacement west __m displacement north __m Now model the Earth as a flat surface to complete the calculation. magnitude __m direction __

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