A hiker walks 35 km east and then 20km south in a day. Find the hikers resultant displacement

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1. A hiker walks 35 km east and then 20km south in a day. Find the hikers resultant displacement.

2. I went for a walk the other day. He went four avenues East (0.80 miles), then twenty-four streets south (1.20 miles), the one avenues west (0.20 miles), and finally eight streets north (0.4 0miles). Find Jerry's displacement.

3. A mountain climbing expedition establishes a base camp and two intermediate camps, A and B. Camp A is 11,200 m east of and 3,200 m above base camp. Camp B is 8400 m east of and 1700 m higher than Camp A. Determine the displacement between base camp and Camp B.

4. Find the vertical and horizontal vectors of a car's resultant displacement 35.6 m/s, 25 degrees of NW.

5. Find the horizontal vector of a plane's displacement 20.3 m/s, 35 degrees of NW.

NOTE: Use GRESA method to answer the addition of non-collinear vectors.

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