document.write( "Question 1189852: After driving 30.0 km west, a car turns southwest and proceeds another 60.0 km. What is the displacement (in
\n" ); document.write( "kilometers) of the car from the point of origin (magnitude only)? \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I tried to do \"x=60sin45\" so x=51.054 and \"y=30%2B60cos45\" so y=61.519 then to find the magnitude of displacement I used MagofDis= \"sqrt%28x%5E2%2By%5E2%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "The answer I got was 6391.137567km but it does not look right.
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\n" ); document.write( "Your process is fine; but obviously 6391km can't be right....

\n" ); document.write( "(1) Your calculations for \"x=60sin%2845%29\" and \"y=30%2B60cos%2845%29\" are not correct. \"sin%2845%29\" and \"cos%2845%29\" are the same, so the difference between your x and y should be exactly 30.

\n" ); document.write( "(2) After finding \"x%5E2%2By%5E2\", you didn't take the square root, as you said you were going to.

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