A car travels 90 meters due north in 15 seconds. Then the car turns 32° west of north and travels 40 meters. What is the magnitude and direction of the car's resultant displacement? what graphical method is most appropriate (and shortest method) for the problem?       a. polygon method       b. component method       c. parallelogram method

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A car travels 90 meters due north in 15 seconds. Then the car turns 32° west of north and travels 40 meters. What is the magnitude and direction of the car's resultant displacement?

what graphical method is most appropriate (and shortest method) for the problem?
 
 
 
a. polygon method
 
 
 
b. component method
 
 
 
c. parallelogram method
 
 
 
d. Law of sines and cosines
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