To visit your favorite ice cream shop, you must travel 420 mm west on Main Street and then 970 mm south on Division Street. a) Find the total distance you traveled. Express your answer to two significant figures and include appropriate units.   b) Choose the correct displacement vector written in unit vector notation, taking the x^x^ direction to be east and the y^y^ direction to be north. r⃗ =r→=   Choose the correct displacement vector written in unit vector notation, taking the  direction to be east and the  direction to be north.

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To visit your favorite ice cream shop, you must travel 420 mm west on Main Street and then 970 mm south on Division Street.

a) Find the total distance you traveled.

Express your answer to two significant figures and include appropriate units.
 
b) Choose the correct displacement vector written in unit vector notation, taking the x^x^ direction to be east and the y^y^ direction to be north.
r⃗ =r→=  
Choose the correct displacement vector written in unit vector notation, taking the  direction to be east and the  direction to be north.
 
 
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