An ant on a picnic table travels 3.0 x 101 cm eastward, then 25 cm northward, and finally 15 cm westward. What vector addition method will provide an accurate answer for these vectors?

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An ant on a picnic table travels 3.0 x 101 cm eastward, then 25 cm northward, and finally 15 cm westward. What vector addition method will provide an accurate answer for these vectors?
 
 
 
a. polygon method
 
 
 
b. parallelogram method
 
 
 
c. vector addition using Pythagorean theorem
 
 
 
d. vector addition using the law of sines and cosines
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