I take my dogs on an afternoon walk. We leave my house, walking due East for...

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I take my dogs on an afternoon walk. We leave my house, walkingdue East for 4 km. We then walk 3.5 km at an angle of 35 degreesWest of North. Finally, we ealk 5.4 km at an angle of 15 degreesWest of South. If I were to walk along a straight path that wuldtake us back to my house, how far and in what direction should Iwalk?

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In this question we need vector addition of all three displacement that will give us distance for straight path Rnet R1 R2 R3 Suppose given that Vector is R and it makes angle A with xaxis then its components are given by Rx Rcos A Ry    See Answer
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