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 alijehad
May 14, 2012, 05:02 AM
A car starts at the origin and moves with velocity  = ( 10.0 , northeast) How far from the origin will the car be after traveling for 53.0 ?
 Curlyben
May 14, 2012, 05:05 AM
Need some units of measure here, please.
 alijehad
May 14, 2012, 05:24 AM
A car starts at the origin and moves with velocity  = ( 10.0m/s , northeast) How far from the origin will the car be after traveling for 53.0s ?
 jcaron2
May 14, 2012, 05:57 AM
It doesn't matter what direction the car goes; you're only interested in the distance it travels.  Hence, you just need to use the simplest of formulas:
 
distance = rate x time