Question

You are driving from town A to town B. From town A you go 3 miles West and 4 miles South. What is the distance between the two towns?
1)
5
2)
2
3)
1
4)
7

Answer 1

distance=7
displacement=5(ie straight linedistance)

Answer 2

so the answer would be 7.?

Answer 3

No, the distance you traveled is 7. The distance between the two towns is 5. Basically, you can think of it as having traveled the two legs of a right triangle instead of the hypotenuse.