Velocity

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1. The cheetah can run a distance of 274 m in 8.65 s. What is the average speed of the cheetah?

 

 

 

2. Matt swam 100 m in 49.17 s. What was Matt’s average speed?

 

 

 

3. Florence ran 200.0 m in 21.34 s. What was Florence’s average speed? 

 

 

 

4. A ship traveled 4727 km east by northwest in 82.67 hours.  What is the average velocity of the ship in kilometers per hour (km/h)?

 

 

 

5. The Artic tern flies north 16,000 km in 122 days.  What is the average velocity of the Artic tern in km/day?

 

 

 

6. If a polar bear is swimming with an average speed of 2.6 m/s, how far will it have traveled after 36,000 seconds?

 

 

 

7. Suppose instead the polar bear is running with an average speed of 8.3 m/s, how far will it have traveled after 36,000 seconds?

 

 

 

8. A walrus swims at an average speed of 9.6 m/s.  How far does a walrus swim in 204 seconds?

 

 

 

9.The maximum speed on some U.S. highways is 121 km/h.  How far in kilometers would a car travel in 3.33 hrs going this speed?

 

 

 

10. The minimum speed on most U.S. highways is 72 km/h.  How far in kilometers would a car travel in 3.33 hours going this speed?

 

 

 

11. A baseball is pitched with a speed of 35.0 m/s.  How much time will it take the ball to travel 18.4 m moving this speed?

 

 

 

12. A tree sloth moves with a speed of .743 m/s.  How long does it take a tree sloth to travel 22.30 m moving this speed?

 

 

 

13. A train is moving at a constant speed of 97 km/h.  How many hours would it take to travel 478 km?

 

 

 

14. The Concorde traveled at a maximum speed of 2150 km/h.  How many hours would it take the Concorde to travel the 6265 km between London and New York?

 

 

 

15. Gertrude Ederle swam 37,900 m across the English Channel with an average speed of .725 m/s.  How many seconds did it take her to cross the Channel?