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# Identify which of the following statements is true?

Displacement is a vector and distance is scalar.

##### SOLUTION
Displacement has both magnitude as well as direction, thus it is a vector quantity.
Whereas distance has only magnitude but no direction. Thus it is a scalar quantity.

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