Say that you take 1 step left, then 2 forward, then 4 right, then 3 right, then 3 forward, then 5 back. Take me through the process of determining how far you end up from your starting position.
First, we find the displacement from the starting position, which we will use to calculate the distance. To do this, collect the steps into groups by direction.
 
 Left: we take 1 step left
 Right: we take 4 + 3 = 7 steps right
 Forward: we take 2 + 3 = 5 steps forward
 Back: we take 5 steps back
 
 We can subtract step counts in opposite directions to get our final displacement
 
 Left/Right: we take 1 step left and 7 right, so we take a total of 1 - 7 = -6 steps left. This is equivalent to 6 steps right.
 Forward/Back: we take 5 steps forward and 5 steps back, so we take a total of 5 - 5 = 0 steps forward.
 
 This means we end up 5 steps to the right and 0 steps forward from where we started, which is a distance of 5 steps.