What happens when a vector is multiplied by a scalar?
a) It gets rotated in the plane
b) It gets longer
c) It turns into a scalar
d) It gets either longer or shorter, but does not change direction

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The scalar operates only on the magnitude of the vector.  So the length of the vector may change ... becoming longer or shorter ... but its direction doesn't change.

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