How to add 3 vectors of different directions together?

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For example: 3 Newtons [East30°North] + 5 Newtons [West] + 2 Newtons [West60°South]...

Thanks!

I missed the day we went over this in class so it is new to me!
 
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You need to break up each vector into horizontal and vertical components and then add those together separately.

So for example if I have a vector that is 5N 75 degree North of East, I would know that
[tex]F_{x} = 5N cos(75), F_{y} = 5N sin(75)[/tex]