Question

You drive a car 2.0 km to the gas station, 4.0 km to the shopping mall to let your mother off, and 4.5 km back home. The trip takes 20.0 min. What is your average speed?


Remember distance divided by the time. PLEASE read the question VERY CAREFULLY and then look at the answer choices VERY CAREFULLY.


0.525 m per s


.00875 m/s


4.38 m per s


3.2 m per s

Answer 1

The answer is 0.525 m per s

We would get this by adding up the total distance which was 10.5 and dividing by the total time which is 20 minutes.