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Bearings

Bearings are used to describe the direction of one object from another, measured from north in a clockwise direction using three digits. To find bearings greater than 180°, measure the interior angle and subtract it from 360°. The point with 'from' is the starting point for the bearing measurement.

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Bearings

Bearings are used to describe the direction of one object from another, measured from north in a clockwise direction using three digits. To find bearings greater than 180°, measure the interior angle and subtract it from 360°. The point with 'from' is the starting point for the bearing measurement.

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17/1/25 Bearings

• A bearing describes the direction of one object from


another. If, for example, you're trying to get from point A to
point B, you would see that you would first have to go up,
then east. These are very generic descriptions though, so we
use bearings to describe directions.

• To write directions as bearings, there are three rules you


must follow:
(1) Always measure the angle starting from north.

(2) Always measure the angle clockwise from north.

(3) Always write the bearings using three digits. If you're angle
is 65°, for example, you'd write it as 065°.
• To measure bearings that are bigger than 180 using a
protractor, you can measure the interior angle and then
subtract it from 360. In the line PQ above, we can find the
interior angle between the north and Q, which is
approximately 50°, then subtract it from 360 which equals
310°.

• The bearings of lines can also be written as "bearing from X


to Y." Using the above examples, we can rewrite them as
"bearing from A to B." and "bearing from Q to P."
• Whichever point has "from" in front of it, is the point that you
have to start from.

• In the second example, if we wanted to find the bearing of


Q from P, we could simply use alternate angles:

(a) Split angle Q by subtracting it from 180.



(b) The answer to step A will equal angle P because they are
alternate angles.

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