Which method will help us find the direction of a displacement of two perpendicular vectors? a. law of cosines  c. Pythagorean theorem b. trigonometric function d. parallelogram method

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Which method will help us find the direction of a displacement of two perpendicular vectors?

a. law of cosines  c. Pythagorean theorem

b. trigonometric function d. parallelogram method

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