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PREDICT

How this connects to AP Physics 1 (Topics 1.1 and 1.2): distance is a scalar: the total length of the path. Displacement is a vector: the change in position, with a sign for direction. Average velocity is displacement divided by time, and average speed is distance divided by time, so they can differ.