Question

A vechicle travels 60.km north and then 40. km South. What is its total displacement?

Answer 1

So lets just say traveling north is positive. And traveling south is negative, if north is positive, and south is negative, therefore, the answer would be easy to calculate this way:

$\Delta$x displacement= 60 km+(-40km)

=60 km - 40 km,

Hence, then answer would be 20 km.

The total displacement would be 20 km.

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