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An ant is crawling along a yardstick that is pointed with the 0-inch mark to the east and the 36-inch mark to the west. It starts at the 17-inch mark, crawls to the 21-inch mark, then moves to the 8-inch mark. What was the total distance the ant traveled?

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The total distance that is traveled is 12 inches.

What is the distance?

We know that distance is a scalar quantity. The term distance only has to do with the difference between two points. The direction is not taken into cognizance when we are discussing the distance that has been covered.

As we have said that distance is a scalar quantity, it the follows that the process of obtaining the total distance can only be algebraic given that we could directly add all the distance covered by the ant in order to obtain the total distance of the ant.

Now, we can see that the ant starts at the 17-inch mark, crawls to the 21-inch mark, then moves to the 8-inch mark. The total distance covered is obtained from; (21 - 17) + 8 = 12 inches.

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