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John had to run the track 5 times to make the cross country team. Coach said he he had 7.5 mins to finish. Each lap is 400 meters (m). what is his average speed and velocity?

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Answer:

4.44m/s.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the average speed, you need to multiply the number of laps (5) by the length of each lap (400 m) to get the total distance (2000 m). Then you need to divide that by the total time (7.5 min) converted to seconds (450 s). The result is 4.44 m/s.

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