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Measure the distance traveled and the time it took to go that far.

If you can walk a mile in 16 minutes the speed would be 1mile per 16 minutes.

We sometimes convert this to more common terms like miles per hour.

1mile/16minutes=xmiles/60minutes=60 divided by 16=3.75 miles per hour

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