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QUESTION 2

A person in a warehouse is looking for an item. While searching for this item, they walk 33m to the East, 28m to the
North, 46m to the East, and then 11 m to the North. What was this person's displacement (m) after searching for the
item?

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According to the attachment

  • BC=33+46=89m
  • AB=11+28=39m

Apply Pythagorean theorem

  • Displacement is AC


\\ \tt\longmapsto AC^2=AB^2+BC^2


\\ \tt\longmapsto AC^2=39^2+89^2


\\ \tt\longmapsto AC^2=1521+7921


\\ \tt\longmapsto AC^2=9442


\\ \tt\longmapsto AC=97.16m

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