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Distance travelled is always _______.


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  1. The actual length of the path traveled by a body throughout the course of a journey, without taking into account its direction, is known as distance.
  2. Distance is a scalar quantity which means it is described using the only magnitude.
  3. The value of the distance is always positive as the distance traveled cannot decrease which means it cannot be a negative value.

Therefore, distance travelled is always positive.


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