Melinda is taking a tour through a new city on the tour she walk there .40 miles south 0.65 miles east 0.78 miles north 1.24 miles west then 1.20 miles south at the end of the tour what is Melinda's displacement vector

The displacement vector is  

Explanation:

Taking East as positive x-axis having a unit vector and North as positive y-axis having a unit vector .

So, west and south are in negative x and negative y  directions respectively.

As she walks 0.40 miles south, 0.65 miles east, 0.78 miles north, 1.24 miles west then 1.20 miles south.

Scaling 1 mile as 1 unit vector, so 1 mile east = 1 and so on

Adding all the displacement vectors, we have

Hence, the displacement vector is  

the correct answer is b

russian is not my first language, so i'm afraid i can't write out an answer in russian, but hopefully you can find a way to do so. here's my best translation of the problem: you're given a plot of a particle's position in one-dimensional space over time, and you're asked to find either the total distance traveled by the particle after 6 seconds had elapsed, or the total displacement of the particle after 6 seconds.

if you want the total distance traveled, you would first need to determine the particle's velocity as a function of time, then integrate that over the 6-second interval. we know the position function is quadratic with roots at 0 and 6, so we have

where is unknown. because the position is parabolic, there is symmetry about the midpoint at , and we know that

so that the position function is

which means the velocity is

then the total distance traveled is

so the total distance traveled is 20 m.

on the other hand, if you want to find displacement: the particle starts at and ends at , so its displacement is 0.