What do we call the distance and direction straight from an earlier position to a later position? Odistance-like O Route 66 O a false notion of how life will be O displacement
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it refers to the shortest distance between the object two position like distance between it's point of origin and it's point of destination no matter what path it took to get to that destination a. displacement b. distance c. speed d. velocity
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