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Calculating Speed, Average speed and Velocity

S = speed D = distance Time = time V = velocity

Formulas: s = d ÷ t V = speed in a given direction
Avg speed = total distance ÷ total time d2 – d1
t2 – t1
SHOW ALL WORK!! Round all answers to the nearest tenth.

1. What is the speed of a sailboat that is traveling 100 meters in 120 seconds?

2. If a cyclist in the Tour de France traveled southwest a distance of 12,250 meters

in one hour, what would the velocity of the cyclist be?

3. Calculate the speed of a dog running through a field if he is covering 23.7 meters
in 54 seconds.

4. If a cross country runner covers a distance of 347 meters in 134 seconds what is
her speed?

5. What is the speed of a baseball that travels 49 meters in 2.4 seconds?

6. Calculate the velocity of a car that travels 556 kilometers northeast in 3.4 hours.
Leave your answer in kilometers per hour.

7. If the distance covered by a jogger is 2,541 meters through the park and the time
it took to cover that distance was 43.6 minutes, what was the speed of the jogger?

8. Which object has a greater velocity, a ball rolling down a 3.4 meter hill in six
seconds or a fish swimming upstream and covering 5.4 meters in 0.4 minutes?
9. If Seneca decides to walk across town to a store that is .95 kilometers away and
she has only 25 minutes to get there, what speed does she need to maintain in
order to reach the store on time?

10. If a projectile flies north 387 meters in 5.8 seconds, what is its velocity?

11. Calculate the velocity of a mountain climber if that climber is moving southwest
at a pace of 1.6 km in 1.4 hours?

12. How long will it take for a car to travel a distance of 200 km if it is traveling at a
velocity of 55 km/hr north?

13. A girl is pedaling her bicycle at a velocity of 0.10 km/min. How far will she
travel in two hours?

14. The water in the Salt River flows at an average speed of 5 km/hr. If you and a
friend decide to canoe down the river a distance of 16 km, how many hours and
minutes will it take?

15. You and your family are taking a road trip. You start off traveling 130 miles in
two hours. You stop for half an hour to gas up and get some snacks. Back on the
road for 3.5 hours and you have traveled 225 more miles. So far, what is the
average speed of your trip?

16. A boy rolls down a hill on a skateboard. At time = 4 seconds, that boy has rolled
6 meters from the top of the hill. At time = 7 seconds, the boy has rolled to a
distance of 30 meters. What is his average speed?

Time (Seconds) Distance Rolled (Meters)

4 seconds 6 meters
7 seconds 30 meters