Speed Problems Review

If Steve throws the football 50 meters in 3 seconds, what is the average speed (velocity) of the football?

• 0.06 m/s
• 16.7 m/s
• 150 m/s
• 53 m/s

Bart ran 5,000 meters from the police at an average speed of 6 meters/second before he got caught. How long did he run?

• 30,000 s
• 0.0012 s
• 833.3 s
• 212 s

Tina's calculations of a tarantula found that the spider was able to cover 20 cm in 5 seconds. What was the average speed of the spider?

• 4 m/min
• 4 m/s
• 4 cm/min
• 4 cm/s

Change in position over time.

• Location
• Velocity
• Motion
• Movement

Distance over time.

• Travel
• Motion
• Velocity
• Speed

Average speed over time.

• Total Speed
• Average Speed
• Velocity
• Reference Point

How is speed calculated?

• S= D/M
• S= D/T
• S= T/D
• T= S/D

What is speed?

• how far you go
• how much distance is covered over a period of time
• how fast you accelerate
• the change in the location of a object

If a puppy runs across a park at a speed of 15 m/s. The puppy has a time of 5 seconds. How far did the puppy run?

• 75 m

• 30 m

• 45 m

• 105 m

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.2

CCSS.6.EE.B.6

CCSS.6.EE.B.7

CCSS.6.RP.A.3

Tyler ran 400 meters at an average speed of 20 m/s. How much time did it take to run the 400 meters?

• 20 miles per second

• 20 meters per second

• 8000 seconds

• 20 seconds