Speed and Velocity
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A train takes 100 seconds to travel 1,500 m. What is the speed
of the train?
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A car travels at 25 m/s for 3 minutes. How far does it travel?
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Question 1: A bird flies 10 meters in 2 seconds. What is speed?
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Question 6: A snail moves at 0.03 km/h. How many minutes does it take
to slime its way 1 m along a garden path?
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Question 2: If a plane takes 8 hours to fly 5,000 km, what is its speed in
km/h?
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On your own practice: Round to the nearest hundredth.
1. A bicyclist travels 60 km in 3.5 h. What is the cyclist’s average speed?
2. What is the average speed of a car that traveled 300 km in 5.5 h?
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3. How much time would it take for the sound of thunder to travel 1500m
if sound travels at 330 m/s?
Question 3: A man takes his dog to the vet who is 30km away. If it takes
45 minutes (.75 hours) what is his speed in km/h?
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4. How much time would it take for an airplane to reach its destination if
it traveled at an average speed of 790 km/h for a distance of 4700 km?
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5. How far can a person run in 15 min at a speed of 16 km/h?
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Question 4: A woman walks at 5 km/h for half an hour. How far does she
travel in km?
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6. A snail can move approximately 0.3 m/min. How many m can a snail
cover in 15 min?
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7. How long would it take you to swim across a lake that is 900m across if
you swim at 1.5 m/s?
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Question 5: How long in seconds does it take a lorry traveling at 10m/s to
cover 1 km?
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8. How many minutes would it take you to swim across the lake above at
1.5 m/s?
9. How far will you travel if you run for 10 min at 2m/s?
10. You have been training for a 20 km bike race. In your first attempt at
this race, you decide that you want to complete it in 0.75 h. What
would your average speed need to be in order to complete the race in
this time?