B5-Calculating Speed

A UFO flys over Houston covering 100 miles in 5 seconds. What is its average speed?

• 50 miles/sec

• 40 miles/sec

• 20 miles/sec

• 5 miles/sec

A rocket car can go 1,000 km in 250 seconds. what is its average speed?

• 25 km/sec

• 4 km/sec

• 50 km/sec

• 6.666 meters /min

A very fast snail can go 360 meters in 18 seconds. What is its average speed?

• 20 m/s

• 30m/s

• 40m/s

• 60m/s

A very slow elephant can cover 1 mile in 2 hours. What is its average speed?

• 2 miles/hr

• .5 miles/hr

• 20 miles/hr

• 30 miles/hr

A very hairy ape can run 240 meters in 10 min. What is its average speed?

• 50 meters/min

• 24 meters/min

• 14 meters/min

• 5 meters/min

A poltergeist pushes a small toy car 6 feet over 12 minutes. What is its average speed?

• 5 ft/minute

• .5 ft/minute

• .20 ft/minute

• AaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAH!!!

A very fast sloth can climb a tree, covering 20 meters in 40 hours. What is the average speed of the sloth?

• 5 m/s

• .5 m/s

• .2 m/s

• 20 m/s

A very good pitcher can throw a baseball that covers the mound, 30 feet away in 5 seconds. What is the average speed?

• 2 ft/sec

• 4 ft/sec

• 6 ft/sec

• 8 ft/sec

A very fast camel can cross 70 km of sand in 2 days. What is the average speed?

• 35 km/day

• 25 km/day

• .35 km/day

• 350 km/day

A very clever squirrel can leap 2 meters from a tree to your house in 1 sec. What is the average speed?

• 2 m/sec

• .5 m/sec

• 20 m/sec

• That's a very cool squirrel.