Question

3.Shanai drove 40 miles to the west, then turned around and drove 70 miles to the east.

Draw vectors that show each segment of her trip and the resultant displacement vector. Find
her resultant displacement.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Comment

The main points are that

• The arrowheads go in opposite directions
• Displacement is measured from the origin to the arrowhead of the last vector correctly drawn.
• the tail of the second vector starts where the arrowhead of the first vector is.

Solution

40 miles west

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Displacement (30 km east)

Answer

30 km east