Question

a car traveling on the taconic parkway travels 84 miles in two hours . what is cars speed ( a special type of rate ) in miles per hour ?

Answer 1

A car traveling on the laconic parkway travels 84 miles in two hours what is the cars speed a special type of rate in miles per hours?

Answer 2

Speed is the magnitude in a velocity. It is a scalar quantity so it does not have direction unlike velocity which is a vector quantity. Speed and velocity refers to the distance traveled by a moving object per unit of time. We calculate speed as follows:

Speed = distance / time = 84 miles / 2 hours
Speed = 42 miles per hour