Speed Worksheet Name Use your understanding of speed and velocity to answer the following questions. Show the 4-step method for full credit.
What is the speed of a runner who ran 47m in 3.9sec?

What is the speed of a car that can travel 2 miles in .038hours?

Find the velocity in m/s of a swimmer who swims 110m towards shore in 72sec.

Find the velocity in m/s of a baseball thrown 38m from third base to first in 1.7sec.

John and Sally had a bet to see who is the fastest in the school. John said he was able to run 126ft in 9.4sec and Sally said she was able to run 37ft in 3.5sec. What would be the avg speed of each runner and who would you consider to be the fastest.

What is faster, a car moving at 59m/3.4sec or a man running at 4.8m/.13sec?

Find the distance in meters a cyclist would travel in 5.00 hours at an average velocity of 12.0km/hr to the southwest.

8. A plane is traveling at 350 miles per hour. How long is it going to take for the plane to travel 1000 miles?

Draw a graph for a car that traveled 430 miles in 12 hour. Time should be on the x-axis and distance should be on the y-axis. Use appropriate numbers and labels your axies.
What is the average speed of the car?
Plot a point along the line every hour. What was the car’s distance traveled at 4.5 hours?
What is the car’s average speed at the 2 hour mark?
What would you expect the distance to be after 13 hours?

Draw a graph for runner who ran a race described below. Each box should represent 0.5 miles on the y-axis and 2 minutes on the x-axis. LABEL YOUR AXIES!!!
The runner started her run going 2 miles in 12 minutes.
Now very winded she stopped for 4 minute to catch her breath.
She then decided to go at a steady jog for the next 2 miles which took her 22 minutes.
She then realized she dropped her sunglasses so she backtracked for 1 mile which took 10 min.
After finding her sunglasses she decided to run hard to the finish line 3 miles away taking 24 min.

What was the runners average speed for their race?
What was her average speed at 18 minutes?

Interpret the graph below and describe what is happening during this runner’s race.

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