Figuring Out Displacement Vector Direction

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There is an attached image I couldn't figure out how to make it in the post.

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So I know that the direction of the velocity vector will be in the direction on the displacement vector from P to Q:

2i+5j+3k

I also know that the magnitude of the velocity vector is 5cm/sec.

My thought on this is that we find the unit vector in the direction of the displacement and then multiply it by 5. So we get:

v = 5(2/sqrt(38)i+5/sqrt(38)j+3/sqrt(38)k)

Is this thinking correct?
 

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