Speed Practice Problems Review

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

How is speed calculated?

• S= D/M
• S= D/T
• S= T/D
• T= S/D

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

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

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

If Mike rides his motorcycle at an average speed of 20 m/s for 500 seconds, how far does he ride?

• 10,000 m
• 25 m
• 0.04 m
• 250 m

What is velocity?

• the quickness of an object
• the location of an object
• acceleration
• speed in a specific direction

John took 90 minutes to bicycle to his grandmother's house, a total of six kilometers.  What was his speed (pay attention to units)? 

• 540 km/hr
• .066 km/hr
• 4 km/hr
• 9 km/hr

If a lizard can run 8 m across the water in 4 seconds, how fast is he traveling?

• 32 m/s

• 2 m/s

• 2 seconds

• 34 meters