Aballoon drifts 50 m toward the east in 6 s; then the wind suddenly changes and the balloon flies 30 m toward the west in the next 5 s. what was the balloon's total displacement?

Displacement of an object is equal to distance from starting point to end point.

Let's use positive numbers for movement towards east and negative numbers fro movements towards west. First movement is +50m, second movement is -30m. We add these numbers to find displacement.


Total displacement is 20m towards east.

Iread this book last year so take this with a grain of salt.gene jumps from the tree to compete with finny due to the fact that gene is always trying to do better than finny. he is put under the grasp of peer pressure due to finny almost forcing him to do this. ever since he first jumped finny kept pressuring him to jump since he thought gene enjoyed jumping.rather than uses this answer you should probably just reread chapters 3-4