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Question 1.3: Find a representation of the vector (2,-1) whose initial poi...

Find a representation of the vector (2,-1) whose initial point is the point P = (5,-4).

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Let Q=(5+2,-4-1)=(7,-5). Then \overrightarrow{P Q} is a representation of the vector (2,-1). This is illustrated in Figure 7 .

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