Special Relativity Andromeda galaxy Question

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robphy said:
Think "triangles"... legs as spatial and temporal components, hypotenuses as the invariant spacetime-intervals. You can write down an explicit algebraic answer in terms of your given quantities... without first explicitly calculating the outgoing velocity of the traveller.

Oh, of course, I see it now. I could've used that trick on the GRE ;)