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Suppose you walk 18.0 m straight west and then 25.0 m straight north.

Suppose you walk 18.0 m straight west and then 25.0 m straight north. (If you represent the two legs of the walk as vector displacements A and B, as in the figure below, then this problem asks you to find their sum R = A + B.) 

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How far, in meters, are you from your starting point? 

What is the compass direction of a line connecting your starting point to your final position measured in degrees west of north?

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Thus I am 30.81m from starting point, and the line joining from my starting point to my final point make an angle 35.75 degree west of north.

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