Question

You walk towards Starbucks southward for 14 meters and then west for 9 meters. The trip takes you 3 minutes to walk there. What is your average velocity in meters per SECOND?

Answer 1

Although you walked (14+9)= 23 meters of distance, you ended up only 16.64 meters from where you started. That's your "displacement".

Velocity = (displacement / (time)

Velocity = (16.64m)/(180s)

Velocity = 0.0925 m/s roughly Southwest.

(That's about 3.6 INCHES per second. Apparently, you really NEED that mocha java and it's associated drug.)