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If you draw the indicated vectors you have a right triangle with hypotenuse equal to 50 and one side equal to 25. The other side is found by the Pythagorean theorem:
x^2 + 25^2 = 50^2
x^2 = 2500 - 625 = 1875
x = sqr(1875) = 43.3
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