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Transcribed Image Text:Five groups of four vectors are shown below. All magnitudes of individual vectors are equal. Please
rank the groups based on the magnitude of the resultant vectors if the four vectors in each group
were added together. Rank the groups of vectors from the greatest resultant magnitude to the
smallest resultant magnitude.
11 11
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R
S
O 1) Q > P = R > S > T
O 2) P > Q> S > R>T
O 3) S > Q > P > R > T
O 4) Q > P > R=S > T
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