Calculating Average Speed

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

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CCSS.HSF.IF.B.4

What is the formula to calculate speed?

• Speed = time/distance
• Speed = distance/time
• Speed = distance x time
• Speed = time x distance

Calculate the average speed (in meter/sec) if a cheetah runs 180 meters in 10 seconds.

• 198 m/sec
• 170 m/sec
• 12 m/sec
• 18 m/sec

A runner races in the 100 meter dash.  It takes her 10 seconds to finish.  What is her average speed?

• 10 m/s
• 1000 m/s
• 100 seconds
• 10 seconds

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CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2

Every summer I drive to Michigan. It is 500 miles to get there. If I average 60 mi/hr, how much time will I spend driving? 

• 8.3 hr
• 0.12 hr
• 30,000 hr

Total distance divided by total time is

• average speed
• constant speed
• instantaneous speed
• acceleration

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CCSS.8.F.B.4

CCSS.HSF.IF.B.6

What two measurements are necessary for calculating speed?

• Mass and time
• Temperature and mass
• Mass and distance
• Distance and time

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CCSS.6.RP.A.3B

Can be measured in meters per second (m/s)

• Distance
• Time
• Speed
• Acceleration

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

The correct equation to calculate speed is

• distance/time
• time/distance
• distance x time
• distance/time²

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CCSS.8.EE.C.7B

Distance and direction of an object's change in position from a starting point

• displacement
• distance
• motion
• reference point

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CCSS.HSN.VM.A.1