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STATEMENT - 1 : Distance is a vector quantity and displacement is a scalar quantity.
STATEMENT - 2 : A person makes a round - trip journey, finishing where she started. The displacement for the trip is 0 and the distance is some nonzero value.
STATEMENT - 3 : A person starts at position A and finishes at position B. The distance for the trip is the length of the segment measured from A to B.

A

TTT

B

FTF

C

FFF

D

TFT

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