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Homework
Speed and Velocity
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1. Calculate the average speed of a cheetah that runs 140 meters in 5 seconds.
2. Calculate the average speed of Speedy Steve who runs to the store 4000 m in 200 s.
3. How far will an object move in one second if its average speed is 5 m/s?
4. An object rolls at a speed of 12 m/s for 3.0 seconds. What distance did it travel?
5. A car is traveling at 17 m/s. How long does it take the car to travel 100 meters?
6. Ms. Kemal went to a football game and measured the average speed of the ball to be
6.02 m/s. How far would she travel if she were to run at that rate for 137 s?
7. A slippery penguin jumps into the arctic and swims with a speed of 0.98 m/s. If he
swims for 34 seconds, how far does he go?
8. If you're in the mall and you walk for 95 seconds with an average speed of 1.2 m/s,
what is your displacement?
9. An average tree sloth moves with a speed of 0.75 m/s. How long does it take a sloth
moving at this speed to travel 15 m?
10. A baseball is pitched with a speed of 35.0 m/s. How long does it take the ball to
travel 70.0 m from the pitcher’s mound to home plate?
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11. Calculate the time in seconds an Olympic skier would take to finish a 2600 meter
race at an average velocity of 28 m/s downhill.
12. The cheetah, the fastest of land animals, can run a distance of 274 m in 8.65 s at its
top speed. What is the cheetah’s top speed?
13. Find the velocity in meters per second of a football thrown 38 meters downfield in
1.7 seconds.
14. What is the velocity in meters per second of a sailboat that travels 149 meters away
from the shore in 16.8 seconds?
15. Florence Griffith-Joyner set the women’s world record for running 200.0 m in 1988.
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she completed the distance in
21.34 s. What was Florence Griffith-Joyner’s average speed?
16. Find the velocity in meters per second of a swimmer who swims exactly 110 meters
toward the shore in 55 seconds.
17. Entrée rode his bicycle 60 m in 5 seconds. How fast was he going?
18. A bowler hurls his bowling ball at 12 m/s. If it takes the ball 3 s to roll down the
lane, how long is the lane?
19. A horse runs 70 m in 7 s. How fast is it running?
20. It takes a girl 120 s to run a race. If she runs at 6 m/s, how far does she go?
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