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A bus travels 6 km east and then 8 km south. The magnitude of the bus’s resultant displacement is ___km.

I would like an explanation as well so I know how you got the answer you got.

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Answer:

10 km

Step-by-step explanation:

You can draw your problem out. You can use the pathagoran theorem to figure it out. So
6^(2) +
8^(2) and then square root the answer which will be
√(100) which equals to 10.

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