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Distance. If you drive away from the house one morning, drive around town all day, and return home in the evening, the odometer properly registers several kilometers added, but the day's dislacement is zero. Even better: If you've owned the car for a year, the odometer may well display 20 thousand kilometers, although the car sits parked in the same garage today as the one where it sat on the day you bought it.
How you can use the speedometer and a clock to tall how far you've traveled in a car if the cars odometer is not working. Hint assume you are traveling at a constant velocity
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In a car the Odometer will show you the distance travelled. In mathematics you would need to know the average speed the car was travelling at and the time that it was travelling for. Divide the average speed by 360 to get how many units of distance were covered per second. Muliply this by the number of seconds the car was travelling for. The result will be the distance, in the same unit of distance as the speed was measured in. Example, Average speed = 30km per hour Time = 15 minutes (900 seconds) Distance = (Average Speed/360)*Time = (30/360)*900 = 7.5 (km)