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a body travels a distance of 3km towards east,then 4 km towards north and finally 9km towards east.What is the resultant displacement??​

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12.64 Km

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  • a body travels a distance of 3km towards east,then 4 km towards north and finally 9km towards east.What is the resultant displacement??​

I answer for what I understand, you are looking for the length of the displacement as the crow flies, from A to C (see figure), we find it with the Pythagorean theorem, step by step in the figure

a body travels a distance of 3km towards east,then 4 km towards north and finally-example-1
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