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Usually you walk straight home from school. But today you take

a detour to buy some candy on the way home. Which will
change, the distance of our walk home, the displacement of
your walk home, or both?

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Answer: the distance of our walk home.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Physics when we speak of distance we refer to the space traveled that is always measured on the trajectory, while displacement refers to the space from an initial position to a final position regardless of the path. When the path is a straight line, the space traveled is equal to the module of the displacement.

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