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Determine the distance traveled and divide by the time it took to cover that distance. If one travels 100 miles in two hours, one averaged 100/2 miles per hour or 50 miles/hour.
Example:
A car travels between 2 towns 60 miles apart in 2 hours. What is its average speed?
Answer:
average speed = distance/time Therefore, the average speed of the car is 60 miles/2 hours = 30 miles/hour. last update November 22, 2005 by JL Stanbroughhttp://www.batesville.k12.in.us/physics/phyNet/mechanics/Kinematics/AveSpeed.html
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How is a distance time graph be used?
To find the average speed or rate of something.(:
How do you find the total average speed?
Average Speed = Total Distance / Total Time
How do you find the average speed per hour?
Average speed = Total distance/Total time
How do you find the average in mph?
Average speed = Total distance/Total time
What is an object's total distance traveled divided by the total time it travels?
In general, we will find the average speed of a moving object by dividing the total distance it travels by the total time elapsed in its travel.We can find the actual speed of the object if it moves with a constant speed during all of its travel. But if the object is something like a bus or train that makes stops along the way, we discover its average speed by dividing the total distance it travels by the total time it took to travel that distance.
