Answer:
D. the distance and direction to the water fountain
Step-by-step explanation:
To describe the position of a water fountain relative to where one is standing, the distance and direction to the water fountain must be known.
This quantity is known as the displacement.
- Displacement is a vector quantity with both magnitude and direction.
- To specify the magnitude of a displacement, we use the length of path and in this case the height or sometimes the distance.
- The direction attribute distinguishes distance from displacement
- The perfect quantity to solve this problem is the displacement and it specifies the distance of the path and the direction traveled.