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How much is velocity of a body when it travels 600 m in 5 minutes? ​

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Step-by-step explanation:

velocity or speed is defined as ratio

distance traveled / time traveled

typical normed speed ratios are

meters per second (m/s), feet per second (f/s or fps), kilometers per hour (km/h), miles per hour (m/h or mph), ...

so, it is not clear here, if we need to bring the ratio in our given situation into any of these normed forms.

basically, the velocity here is given as

600 m / 5 min = 600/5 m/min = 120 m/min.

now we could bring this e.g. to m/s (1 minute = 60 seconds) :

120 m/min = 120/(1×60) m/s = 120/60 m/s = 2 m/s.

or we could bring this to km/h. remember, 1 km = 1000 m, 1 hour = 60 minutes.

120 m/min = 60×120 m/(1×60) min = 7200 m/60 min =

= 7200 m/h = 7.2 km/h

please consider : these are all the exact same velocity. they are just different forms of expressing it.

remember, velocity is a ratio.

and with any ratio we have e.g.

3/2 = 6/4 = 510/340 = ...

they are all the same ratio.

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