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Find the displacement in meters a runner would travel in 5 hours at an average velocity of 12km/h to the southwest

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Answer:

60,000m

Step-by-step explanation:

Convert km/h to m/s by multiplying with 1000/3600.

Convert hours to seconds by multiplying with 3600.

Because displacement is a vector quantity and deals with the shortest distance between points, simply plug it into the equation s=vt.

Find the displacement in meters a runner would travel in 5 hours at an average velocity-example-1
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