Question

While brayden is traveling along a straight interstate highway, he notices that the mile marker reads 260. Brayden travels until he reaches the 150-mile market and then retraces his path to the 175-mile marker. What is braydens displacement from the 260- mile marker

Answer 1

displacement = -85 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

Displacement

It's a magnitude used to measure the linear space between two points. It's computed as the subtraction of the final position minus the initial position which results in a vector. Notice the displacement only depends on the initial and final positions and not on the path the object has traveled.

Brayden starts to measure his position when the mile marker reads 260. Then he travels to the 150-mile marker and goes back to the 175-mile marker, his final position. As mentioned, the displacement only depends on the relative positions, so

displacement = 175 - 260 = -85 miles