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A man walks $8 m$ towards East and then $6 m$ towards North. His magnitude of displacement is

10 m

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Solution

The correct option is A $10 m$
A man walks 8m towards East and then 6m towards North
Using pythagoras theorem $P^{2} = 8^{2} + 6^{2} = 100$
$P = 10 m$ displacement is $10 m$

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