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Austin buys a new moped he travel 3 km south and then 4 km east and then 3km north how far does he need to go to get back to where he started

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The first thing to do is to define the origin of the coordinate system as the point at which the moped journey begins.
Then, you must write the position vector:
r = -3j + 4i + 3j
Rewriting
r = 4i
To go back to where you started, you must go
d = -4i
That is to say, must travel a distance of 4Km to the west.
Answer
West, 4km.
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