Explain why potential gradient is a vector quantity

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Dear student,
We know that electric potential is a scalar quantity. It is also known that the gradient of a scalar quantity yields a vector quantity because the gradient of the field represent both the magnitude and direction of the change of the scalar field, so electric potential gradient is a vector quantity,
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