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If you ride your bicycle down a straight road for 500 m then turn around and ride back, your distance is _ your displacement

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distance is how much you traveled from begin to end so if you traveled along a road that was 500 m twice then your distance is 1000 m

displacement is change in position between your starting and ending points and since you started and ended at the same place then your displacement is 0
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