Arunner goes around a 1 mile track if they end up at their starting position what is their distance traveled

1 mile

Explanation:

The distance travelled is the length of the path that the runner traveled.

As you have stated he has traveled a 1 mile track so the length he traveled is 1 mile.

The point of ending matters only in displacement not in distance. In displacement we measure the unidirectional shortest distance between two points where the displacement in this case is 0.

the electric field is a “force field” around a charged object that illustrates the direction the electric force would push an imaginary