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Is it Better to Use a Diagram or Math to Calculate Displacement?
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[QUOTE="Yosty22, post: 5366268, member: 460241"] You can do this for this example. With how you described it, it like taking the x-axis. There, you would be setting the 0 point at the origin, such that any distance westward (in your case, the 23m) is negative and anything eastward positive, which is legitimate. The only time this may get a bit trickier thinking of it this way is if you aren't given two points along the x-axis. Say, for example you were given the first point 23m West and the second point 34m East and 10m North. In this case, you would not just add 23m+34m+10m to get 67m because the 2 points do not lie on the same line. However, in your case, this works. [/QUOTE]
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