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Find the magnitude of the vector sum r of the vector displacements c and d whose components in meters along three perpendicular directions are cx= 7.8, cy= -3.8, cz= -6.4; dx= 4.7, dy= -2.1, dz= 3.7;
Given:-
 : is the
resultant vector
 and
 : are the
displacement vectors.





Given displacement vectors have components along three perpendicular directions i.e X, Y and Z axes. These two vectors can be written as,


Where, 
 are the unit vectors along three perpendicular axes X, Y and Z
respectively.
Therefore,


The resultant vector 
 gives us
vector sum of 
 and
 as,




This is the resultant vector.
Now, the magnitude of this vector is given as,




This is the required magnitude of the vector sum
 of the
vector displacements 
 and
.