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What is the resultant of the vecotors shown?

What is the resultant of the vecotors shown?-example-1
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User Eunhye
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D, I believe would be the first minus the second vector.

To solve this I named the first vector as A and the second as B.

So... vector A - B = resultant

or A + (-B)

A negative indicates a direction of a vector so if we flip the direction the other way we have the first vector (A) pointing vertically upwards and then vector B pointing to the west.

Now we have to use the head to tail method, meaning that the head of the first vector has to connect with the tail of the other vector added.

So we should have something like this

(-B) < - - - - ^

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| (A)

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To add these two vectors, technically A - B, draw a line from the tail of A to the head of -B which would look like image D.

Hope this helped!

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