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A man walks 30m to the west, then 5m to the East in 45 seconds. What is the total distance walked?

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Answer:

In this problem basically we will use directions to find displacement and distance .

(Keep in mind that displacement is vector while distance is scalar quantity)

And then we will use displacement and distance to find average velocity and average speed.

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