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A train travels 79 kilometers in 2 hours, and then 77 kilometers in 3 hours. What is its average speed? Answers? and Units?
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A train travels 79 kilometers in 2 hours, and then 77 kilometers in 3 hours. What is its average speed?

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Average speed=total distance traveled/time. Total distance=the sum of the two short distances=79*2+77*3=389 km. Total time used to travel is 2+3=5 hr. Average speed is 389/5=77.8 km/hr.
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