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Four students travelling to a sporting event make a

mistake with their directions and end up travelling out of their way. They are able to use a map to get
themselves back on track, but their mistake caused
them to travel 15 km [N] and then 5.3 km [W].
What displacement resulted from their wrong
directions? (2.2)

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The displacement for wrong directions is 6.6 km
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