Answer and Explanation:
A vector in this sense is a thing that has both magnitude (length) and direction.
Say you're walking at a speed of 5 miles per hour. If you keep walking in a straight line, then in two hours you will have walked 10 miles.
This doesn't give any information about where you started or any information about where you ended up after those 2 hours.
This is because "speed" is a scalar. It's a number with no associated geometry. It's just a magnitude. It's the magnitude of velocity.
Velocity is a vector.
Look on a map at where you are right now. Call that the center of the circle. Draw the circle with a 10 mile radius around where you are now.
The length of the arrow represents all of the possible places you could be after a two hour walk.
Which direction the arrow was pointing is what allows your friends to meet you there without checking along a ~63 mile path to find you or searching ~314 square miles to find you if you slowed down or stopped off along the way.