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Without going into all the fine points about the difference between speed and velocity, speed is generally assumed to be the distance travelled in a unit of time. As an example if you travel 120 feet in 60 minutes you travel at a speed of 120 ft/60 min = 2 ft/min. The assumption (looking at the answer) is that you travelled at the same rate every minute. However in the real world you may have gone 119 feet in 1 minute and spent the remaining 59 minutes traveling the last foot. Spped is therefor the average rate you conered the distance in the total time elapsed.

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