Question

A car drives 2 miles north, 4 miles west, 2 miles south and then drives 6 miles east. What is the car's distance?

Answer 1

Answer:

Ok, so the car has traversed a total of 2 + 4 + 2 + 6 = 14 miles.

That's the car's distance! :)

For the displacement, you can draw out a diagram. I'll try my best to make one using a keyboard xDDD

 -    -   -   -    |

 |                  |

 |    -   -    -  start  -   end!

So, this is the journey of the car: Going two up, 4 left, 2 down, and 6 right.

This ends up 2 to the right of the beginning!

That's a 2 mile displacement :)

Can you give me brainliest for my splendid diagram? xD