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Slightly confused. Would I be correct in saying to find the direction angle of the resultant, I would need to do $\tan^{-1}(\frac y x)$?

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Yes that's correct if we are using an orientation for the angle otherwise we can simply evaluate the angle between the resultant and the $x$ component as

$$\theta=\arctan\left(\frac{|-5.55|}{|16,4|}\right)=18.7°$$

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