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Evelyn meets her friends at a local restaurant 5 km away. Afterwards she stops at the post office which is another 3 km away, but realizes she left the letter she was going to mail at home and goes back to get it. What is her total distance? Displacement?

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16km because she is 8km away and if she goes back it’s gonna be 8km more so it’s 16km
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