Question

Andy has the following series of displacements: 3 m to the right; 4 m to the left; 5 m to the right; and 2 m to the left. What is his distance traveled?

Answer 1

Answer:

14 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

Remember that distance is the total ground covered by the movement of the person that is covering that movement, in this example we just need to add all of the displacement that he does and that would be the distance since Andy actually walked all of that:

3 meters + 4 meters + 5 meters + 2 meters= 14 meters

So the total distance voered by Andy was 14 meters.

Answer 2

Answer:

The distance traveled is 2 m to the right

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's consider positive right displacements and negative left displacements

so

we have

3 m to the right -----> +3

4 m to the left -------> -4

5 m to the right -----> +5

2 m to the left -----> -2

Adds the number to determine the distance traveled

+3-4+5-2=+2

The distance traveled is 2 m to the right