Question 50
A privateer discovers a merchantman $10$ miles to leeward at $11{:}45$ a.m. and with a good breeze bears down upon her at $11$ mph, while the merchantman can only make $8$ mph in her attempt to escape. After a two hour chase, the top sail of the privateer is carried away: she can now make only $17$ miles while the merchantman makes $15.$ The privateer will overtake the merchantman at: