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Wally
 
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Capt. Mooron wrote:

Speeds haven't been stated, so they can't be assumed to be constant.


Without the speeds you have no position to calc a vector... thus
constant speed must be assumed.


ISTM that speed is unknown, so no assumption can be made.


I believe Bart is having some fun! ;-)

The spanner in the works is idea that it's a round trip.


Without the speeds that determination can neither be assumed nor
denied.


I meant that the wording of the question is such that the unwary might
assume that it is a round trip - which it could be - but it might not be.
The vector can be anything, IOW, so I think he's looking for the name of the
resultant vector, and not its magnitude.


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