A Wampus Cat Pizzeria employee leaves the restaurant to deliver a pizza to a house that is 5 miles away from the restaurant. Half way to the house, he realizes he forgot to get the order of crazy claw bread that goes with the pizza. He goes back to the restaurant and picks up the crazy claw bread. He delivers the entire order to the house and returns back to the pizzeria.

1. What distance did the employee travel?
2. What was the employee's displacement?

Question

A Wampus Cat Pizzeria employee leaves the restaurant to deliver a pizza to a house that is 5 miles away from the restaurant. Half way to the house, he realizes he forgot to get the order of crazy claw bread that goes with the pizza. He goes back to the restaurant and picks up the crazy claw bread. He delivers the entire order to the house and returns back to the pizzeria.

1. What distance did the employee travel?
2. What was the employee's displacement?

girlgoyleh. · Answer

the crazy bread was his displacement?

firejay5 · Answer

displacement - distance from point a to point b, not the distance traveled.

girlgoyleh. · Answer

the total distance between the house and the pizza place is 5 and miles he went halfway to the house. half of 5 is 2.5 so then he went back to the pizza place which is another 2.5 miles. then he went back to the house which is another  5 miles

girlgoyleh. · Answer

so that is a total of 10

firejay5 · Answer

@GirlgoyleH. He traveled 10 miles, but what was his displacement.

firejay5 · Answer

@aaronq