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draw a perpendicular from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse. the hypotenuse now has 2 parts, the longer is d, the shorter is e. the mean is m ( the perpendicular you just drew) e/m = m/d
If we look at the net Northern first, he goes 700 m N and 145 m S so that's 555 N. Then if we look at the westerly direction, he goes 400 m W and 100 m E so that's a net of 300 m W. So those are the N and E net displacements, to find the overall displacement we'd use Pythagorus to work out the direct line. So 555^2 + 300^2 = total displacement^2 308,025 + 90,000 = 398025 total displacement = square root(398,025) = 630.9 m.
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