What is the published azimuth of the line AJ10-AJ24?

• A. 233°54'42.3"
• B. 233°54'52.3"
• C. 229°55'12.3"
• D. 233°55'02.3"

Answer: (B)

Azimuth is the clockwise angle from north to the line you’re surveying. For the line from AJ10 to AJ24, the published azimuth tells you the exact direction to move from AJ10 toward AJ24, expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds.

The value 233°54'52.3" places the line in the southwest quadrant (between 180° and 270°), indicating that AJ24 lies southwest of AJ10. This particular bearing matches the field data for that line, down to the tenth of a second, which is why it’s the correct published azimuth.

If you were calculating it yourself, you’d use the coordinate differences between AJ10 and AJ24 and compute azimuth = arctan2(delta Easting, delta Northing), adjust to the 0–360° range, and then convert to degrees, minutes, and seconds with the proper rounding. The other nearby values would shift the direction enough to place the line in a different position or quadrant, which is not consistent with the published record.