What is the displacement and average velocity of a classic car in a road rally?

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Homework Statement


You enter an antique classic car road rally with your 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk. The rally course consists of the following segments: travel north at 25.0 m/s for 30.0 min, then east at 32.0 m/sfor 40.0 min, and finally northeast at 30.0 m/s for 50.0 min. For the entire trip, determine the following.

(a) displacement vector (magnitude and direction) and distance traveled
displacement vector magnitude ____

displacement vector direction ___

distance ___

(b) average velocity vector (magnitude and direction) and average speed
average velocity vector magnitude ___

average velocity vector direction ____

average speed ____

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The Attempt at a Solution


I've been working on this problem for about an hour and haven't gotten it right yet.
 
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Did you try to draw ? You can find the distance traveled in eah segment and show them as a vector, since you have also direction information( which its given)