AKS 1a. Calculating velocity and acceleration

An object travels a distance of 12.8 m in 15 seconds. What is its average velocity?

• 15 m/s
• 12.8 m/s
• 0.85 m/s
• 1.17 m/s

A bike travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 5 seconds. How far does it go?

• 4 m
• 10 m
• 20 m
• 1.5 m

If a car accelerates from rest at a constant 5.5 m/s², how long will it take for the car to reach a velocity of 28 m/s?

• 5.1 s
• 33.5 s
• 56.1 s
• 154 s

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Calculate the average speed if a cheetah runs 180 meters in 10 seconds.

• 1800 m/sec
• 190 m/sec
• 0.06 m/sec
• 18 m/sec

How much time would it take for the sound of thunder to travel at an average speed of 330 meters per second a distance of 8000 meters?

• 24.24 seconds
• 24,000 seconds
• 0.04 seconds
• 2.4 seconds

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If a car accelerates from rest to 27 m/s to 2.9 seconds, what is the average acceleration?

• about 9 m/s²
• about -9 m/s²
• about 10 m/s²
• about 24 m/s²

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Kira jogs to a store 72 m away in a time of 36 s. What is Kira's average speed?

• 0.5 m/s
• 2 m/s
• 2 h

Find the average speed of a train that traveled 540 km in 6 hours?

• 80 km/h
• 100 km/h
• 90 km/h
• 3240 km/h

How far will a person go if they jog for 2 hours at a speed of 12 km/hr?

• 6 km
• 0.5 km
• 10 km
• 24 km

Jared went sledding. He reached a top speed of 31 m/s in about 6 seconds. What was his initial velocity if his acceleration was 2 m/s²?

• 28 m/s

• 43 m/s

• 19 m/s

• 34 m/s

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