Displacement = (straight-line distance between the start point and end point) .
Since the road east is perpendicular to the road north,
the car drove two legs of a right triangle, and the magnitude
of its final displacement is the hypotenuse of the triangle.
Length of the hypotenuse = √ (215² + 45²)
= √ (46,225 + 2,025)
= √ 48,250
= 219.7 miles .