A student rides her bicycle to school, which is 6 km north of her home. After school, she rides to the grocery store that is 2 km north of the school.

 What is the total distance she travels from home to the grocery store?

 For the student, her displacement from home to the grocery store is the same as her distance. How is this possible?

 What could the student do to make her displacement different from her distance traveled?

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Cory Herman

Physics

8 January, 15:09

A student rides her bicycle to school, which is 6 km north of her home. After school, she rides to the grocery store that is 2 km north of the school.

 What is the total distance she travels from home to the grocery store?

 For the student, her displacement from home to the grocery store is the same as her distance. How is this possible?

 What could the student do to make her displacement different from her distance traveled?

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Miss Kitty · Answer 1

The total distance traveled from home to the grocery store would be 8km.

Because both distances she traveled were in the same direction, north, both displacement and distance travel were equal.

If the student traveled in two different directions, such as north to the school and south to the grocery store, her distance traveled would be 8km but her displacement would only be 6km.