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Nina O'Brień of the US competes in the Giant Slalom. The vertical drop is 424

meters, and took Nina 58.81 seconds to complete the course. What is her
average speed?

User Fallenreaper
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Formula for Speed: s = d/t
(speed = distance over time)

s = 434/58.81 = 7.20965822

s = 7.20
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