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For a round trip from home to school and back, displacement equals:

AZero
BTwice the distance one way
CSame as distance
DCannot be calculated
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Zero
Displacement is the straight-line vector from start to end. A round trip ends where it started, so displacement is zero, even though distance is nonzero.
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