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You walk around a block and ends up at
your starting point. If each of the four sides
of the block is 150 meters long, how far did
you walk? What is your resultant
displacement?
a. Solution for total distance traveled:
R:
G:
E:
S:
A:
b. Solution for displacement.
R:

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