Question

A dog travels 10 meters North, then 7 meters East, then 3 meters South. What is the distance and displacement?

Answer 1

distance is how far the dog walked. Add up the length of each path.
displacement is the distance between the start point and the end point.

can you the first part ? (the total distance walked)

Answer 2

distance =20

Answer 3

yes.

for the second part, you should make a graph, and plot each point
start at (0,0)
what point do you end up at after all the traveling?

Answer 4

do I use the pythagorean theorem

Answer 5

7^2+7^2=c^2 right

Answer 6

@phi

Answer 7

yes, good idea. you should get 7 sqr(2) as the displacement.

Answer 8

c=9.8m