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What was the average speed for the second leg of the trip? help me im stuck

What was the average speed for the second leg of the trip? help me im stuck-example-1

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Answer:

The average speed on the second leg of the trip is 2 m/s

Step-by-step explanation:

Notice that the second leg of the trip is from 8 m in the horizontal axis heading to the left to position 4 m. So the velocity is going to be negative and given by the quotient of the change in position (-4 m) divided by the time it took: 2 seconds.

This gives: -4/ 2 m/s = -2 m/s

But the speed is going to be the absolute value of the velocity, that is:

2 m/s

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