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A car travels 300 km in 6 hours. What is the average speed of the car?
a) 25 km/hr
b) 50 mph
c) 50 km/hr
d) 6 mph

A storm is moving toward your house. It is now 60 km away from your house and will reach your area in 3 hours. At what speed is the storm moving?
a) 20 mph
b) 20 m/s
c) 20 km/hr
d) 20 m/min

A swimmer can swim 16.8 meters in 6 minutes. What is the swimmers average speed?
a) 2.8 m/min
b) 2 m/sec
c) 2.8 mps
d) 8.2 m/min

Calculate the average speed (in km/h) of a car stuck in traffic that drives 12 kilometers in 2 hours.
a) 24 km/hr
b) 10 km/hr
c) 14 km/hr
d) 6 km/hr

A train travels 225 kilometers in 2.5 hours. What is the train’s average speed?
a) 500 km/hr
b) 90 km/hr
c) 90 m/min
d) 500 m/sec

An airplane travels 3,260 kilometers in 4 hours. What is the airplane’s average speed?
a) 12,000 km/hr
b) 815 mph
c) 815 km/sec
d) 815 km/hr

The race car was moving for 4 hours and during that time moved 500 miles east. What is the speed?
a) 2000 mph
b) 2000 km/hr
c) 500 mph
d) 500 km/hr

A skater goes 91 meters in 13 seconds. What is her speed?
a) 7 mph
b) 7 m/sec
c) .7 mph
d) .7 m/sec

You arrive in my class 45 seconds after leaving math which is 90 meters away. How fast did you travel?
a) 2 m/sec
b) 2 mph
c) 45 m/sec
d) 45 km/hr

A plane travels 395,000 meters in 5000 seconds. What was its speed?
a) 7.9 m/sec
b) 7.9 mph
c) 79 mph
d) 79 m/sec

What is the average speed of an ant that crawls 1 meter in 50 seconds?
a) .2 m/sec
b) .02 m/sec
c) .2 mph
d) .02 km/sec

What is the average speed of an Olympic sprinter who runs 100 meters in 9.88 seconds?
a) 10.12 m/s
b) 101.2 m/s
c) 1012 m/s
d) 1.012 m/sec

A roller coaster travels 300 m in 45 seconds. What is its average speed?
a) 6.67 m/sec
b) 6.67 m/min
c) 6.67 mph
d) 6.67 km/sec

Sarah drives to the store. It took her 25 minutes to travel 4 miles. What was her average speed?
a) 0.16 mph
b) 0.16 miles/sec
c) 0.16 miles/min
d) 0.16 km/min

Which of these is the correct formula to solve for speed?
a) S=DxT
b) S=D+T
c) S=D-T
d) S=D/T

When solving for speed, you must MULTIPLY distance x time.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

In order to calculate speed, you must kow
a) force and motion
b) distance and direction
c) time and gravity
d) distance and time

A bus traveled 100 miles in 20 hours. What was the average speed of the bus?
a) 5 mph
b) 5 miles
c) .25 mph
d) .50 mph

It takes 30 minutes for an ant to travel 90 meters. What is the average speed of the ant?
a) 3 meters
b) 3 minutes
c) 3 m/min
d) none of the above

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