Question

If you ride your bicycle down a straight road for 500 m then turn around and ride back, your distance is _ your displacement

Answer 1

Distance is how much you traveled from begin to end so if you traveled along a road that was 500 m twice  then your distance is 1000 m 

displacement is change in position between your starting and ending points and since you started and ended at the same place then your displacement is 0<span />