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J4 Understand and use position vectors; calculate the distance between two points represented by position vectors.
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Pure Mathematics - vectors
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Position vectors
Aqa A Level MathematicsPaper 2
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J4 Understand and use position vectors; calculate the distance between two points represented by position vectors
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