There is a tree in the middle of your front yard and you take pictures of a squirrel as it runs around the tree. When you take the first picture, the squirrel is 12.0 m away from the tree in the direction 30.0° N of E. Twenty seconds later, you take a second picture of the squirrel when it is 7.50 m away from the tree in the direction 15.0° E of S. What is the magnitude and direction of the average velocity of the squirrel between the two pictures?

There is a tree in the middle of your front yard and you take pictures of a squirrel as it runs around the tree. When you take the first picture, the squirrel is 12.0 m away from the tree in the direction 30.0° N of E. Twenty seconds later, you take a second picture of the squirrel when it is 7.50 m away from the tree in the direction 15.0° E of S. What is the magnitude and direction of the average velocity of the squirrel between the two pictures?

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There is a tree in the middle of your front yard and you take pictures of a squirrel as it runs around
the tree. When you take the first picture, the squirrel is 12.0 m away from the tree in the direction
30.0° N of E. Twenty seconds later, you take a second picture of the squirrel when it is 7.50 m away
from the tree in the direction 15.0° E of S. What is the magnitude and direction of the average velocity
of the squirrel between the two pictures?

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