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If you traveled one mile at a speed of 100 miles per hour and another mile at a speed if 1 mile per hour, your average speed would not be (100mph+1 mph)/2 or 50.5. What you’d be your average speed?

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Answer:

v = 1.98 mph

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that,

Speed to travel one mile is 100 mph

Speed to travel another mile is 1 mph

The formula used to find your average speed is given by :


v=(2v_1v_2)/(v_1+v_2)

Putting the values, we get :


v=(2* 100* 1)/(100+1)

v = 1.98 mph

So, yours average speed is 1.98 mph.

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