The magnitude of your displacement can be equal to the distance you covered, or it can be less than the distance you covered. But it can never be greater than the distance you covered.
This is because displacement is a straight line, whereas distance can be a straight line, a squiggly line, a zig-zag line, a line with loops in it, a line with a bunch of back-and-forths in it, or any other kind of line.
The straight line is always the shortest path between two points.
The atoms which make up the ion are covalently bonded to one another. 19) It is possible for a compound to possess both ionic and covalent bonding. a. If one of the ions is polyatomic then there will be covalent bonding within it.
