WorksheetsCalculating Speed
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 33mins
A girl on a bike rides down a hill 500 meters long in 50 seconds. What is her speed?
100 m/s
10 m/s
1,000 m/s
10 mph
What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000 meters in 12.12 seconds?
725 m/s
7,425 m/s
742.5 m/s
680 m/s
What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528 meters in 4 seconds ?
140 m/s
132 mph
142 mph
132 m/s
A trip to Florida takes 10 hours. The distance is 816 km. Calculate the average speed.
81.6 km/hr
81.6 mph
82 m/s
816 km/h
An object must travel 60 meters in 4 seconds. At what average speed will the object have to travel to accomplish this task?
15 mph
15 m/s
1500 mph
150 m/s
How fast does a sloth crawl if he moves 10 meters in 4 minutes?
24 m/s
0.4 m/min
2.5 m/min
0.40 m/s
What is the speed of an object that goes 60 miles in 2 hours?
120 mph
30 m/s
120 m/s
30 mph
A dog goes on a walk for 50 minutes. By the time he is done he had traveled 2 km. What was the dog's speed on the walk
0.04 km/min
25 m/s
205 km/min
25 mph
A dog runs after a ball that is 45 meters away. It takes him 9 seconds to reach the ball. How fast is the dog running?
15 m/s
5 mph
50 mph
5 m/s
A plane travels 395,000 meters in 9000 seconds. What was its speed?
460 mph
438 m/s
43.8 m/s
43.8 mph
It takes Serina 0.25 hours to drive to school. Her route is 16 km long. What is Serina’s average speed on her drive to school?
64 km/hr
64 mph
640 mph
160 km/hr
If the man and the ball travels 90 m in 9 seconds, what is their average speed?
10 m/s
180 m/s
99 m/s
10 meters
A ball rolls down a steep hill. It travels 500 m in 1 minute. It then rolls on a flat surface for an additional 3 minutes and travels 300 m. What is the average speed of the ball?
.5 m/min
100 m/min
200 m/sec
200 m/min
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
You are practicing for an upcoming 100-meter dash and documenting average speed to see your growth. Trial one you ran at 14 seconds, trial two was at 13.8 seconds, and trial three was at 13.2 seconds. What is the combined average speed of all three trials? (round answer to hundredth place – to the second decimal)
7.58 meters/second
7.14 meters/second
7.32 meters/second
7.25 meters/second
Jose Altuve is at batting practice for the Houston Astros.
What was the average speed of the baseball for his third hit as it traveled in the air?
32 m/sec
20.7 m/sec
24 m/sec
27 m/sec
Jose Altuve is at batting practice for the Houston Astros.
What was the average speed of all three hits?
32 m/sec
20.7 m/sec
24 m/sec
27 m/sec
