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On your drive home from school, you travel 1200 m in 80 s, then 400 min 20 s.

What is your average speed in m/s?

User Briggs
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Average speed = Total distance/total time taken


= (1200 + 400)/(80 + 20)


= (1600)/(100)


= (16)/(1)


= 16 \: ms {}^( - 1)

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