Calculating Average Speed

Learn to calculate average speed, distance, and time with fun practice problems!

Match the term on the left with the definition on the right. speed the distance an object travels in a certain time Distance cm, km, or m Time seconds, hours, minutes If a car travels 400m in 20 seconds how fast is it going? YES, you can use a calculator on all of these (or just the calculator in google) 2m 20m 8000m 20mph A cheetah is able to run 40 meters in 1.5 seconds. What is the cheetah's average speed? 60 m 0.04 m 26.7 m I don't have enough information to calculate this. Sarah's cousin ran a race at a speed of 12 m for 8 seconds. What was the distance of the race? 9.6 m 90 m 1000 m 96m A plane travels 395,000 meters in 9,000 seconds. What was the planes speed? 43.889mph 200 m 43.889m 309m Serina takes 0.25 hours to drive to school. Her route is 16km long. What is Serina's average speed on her drive to school? 0.64 km 0.64 h 640 km 64 km Speed=Distance Watch the video and answer the questions that follow: Speed is the measure of.... the distance an object travels in a certain time. Pause 1:07 Usain Bolt set the record of 9.58s in the 100m . His speed was 10.44m Pause 1:24 A formula 1 car can travel 375km in 1 hour What must be the same in order to figure out which speed is faster? (1:50) Times Colors Units None of the above Pause Video (2:40) and solve both problems.A car traveled at 50km for 3 hours. How far did the car travel? 16.67 km 150 km 16.67 km 150 hours Pause Video (2:40) and solve both problems.A person walked 5 km at a speed of 3km How long did it take them? 140 hours 2 hours 1.6667 hours 60 minutes