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| style="height:100px; width:200px; text-align:left;"|A [[boat]] is being pulled by two separate tug boats attached by a cable. The tension in each cable is 5000N.
| style="height:100px; width:200px; text-align:left;"|The tug boats and cables are replaced by [[vector]] [[force]]s from the [[boat]].
| style="height:100px; width:200px; text-align:left;"|One of the [[force]]s is redrawn as the [[hypotenuse]] of a [[Right Angle Triangle|right angle triangle]] with [[height]] in the [[y-axis]] and [[base]] in the [[x-axis]].
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| style="height:100px; width:400px; text-align:left;" colspan= "3"|The total [[force]] [[North]] can be calculated by finding the [[height]] of each [[triangle]].