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A person runs 21.0 km west then turns around and runs 10.0 km east what is the distance

User Rob Koch
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Step-by-step explanation:

simply add the length

10+21 = 31

distance is the distance travelled by an object

for displacement, its gonna be the length between the beginning point and end point which mean u need to substract 21 and 10.

so distance, u just need to add

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