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Grade-7
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Question

Displacement is the ____ distance between two points.

  1. Shortest
  2. Longest
  3. Special
  4. Proper 

hintHint:

Displacement is the shortest distance between two points.

The correct answer is: Shortest


    • Displacement is a vector quantity, and it depends upon direction as well as magnitude. 
    • We can calculate displacement by subtracting initial and final position of any object who cover some distance.

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