Question

Jacob drives his car 7 km east. He stops for lunch, then drives 5 km south before driving 2 km east. What distance did he cover? A. 12 km B. 14 km north C. 7 km east and 5 km south and 2 km east D. 14 km

Answer 1

Option (d) is correct.

Distance is the total path length covered by the object.

so, for distance, we add all the path lengths

Here the total distance =7+5+2 =14 km