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Practice: Distance, Time & Speed

This document provides a worksheet with 12 problems involving calculating speed, distance, and time. For each problem, students are instructed to set up the appropriate equation, plug in the given values, and solve for the missing variable. They are to show their work and write their answers with units. The problems involve calculating speeds and distances for planes, cars, bugs, athletes, comets, birds, footballs, runners, motorcycles, spiders, and echoes in canyons.

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329 views

Practice: Distance, Time & Speed

This document provides a worksheet with 12 problems involving calculating speed, distance, and time. For each problem, students are instructed to set up the appropriate equation, plug in the given values, and solve for the missing variable. They are to show their work and write their answers with units. The problems involve calculating speeds and distances for planes, cars, bugs, athletes, comets, birds, footballs, runners, motorcycles, spiders, and echoes in canyons.

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Minerva Mamdouh
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Practice: Distance, Time & Speed Name __________________________________

PS Unit 1: Motion Date _________________________ Hour _____

Directions: Setup and solve the following speed questions below. You must SHOW YOUR WORK to earn full credit. Make
sure you write your final answer with UNITS. *Take pictures of your completed assignment and upload them to Canvas.

1. A plane travels 395,000 meters in 9000 seconds. What was its average speed?
Substitution Answer
Equation
(plug and chug) (number and unit)

2. A car travels at a distance of 450 kilometers in 6 hours. What speed did the car travel at?
Substitution Answer
Equation
(plug and chug) (number and unit)

3. How much time will it take for a bug to travel 3 meters across the floor if it is traveling at 1 meter per second?
Substitution Answer
Equation
(plug and chug) (number and unit)

4. Ms. Capello is running late to class. She travels to the classroom at a speed of 1.7 meters per second for 52
seconds. How far does she travel?
Substitution Answer
Equation
(plug and chug) (number and unit)

5. In a competition, an athlete threw a flying disk 129 meters through the air. While in flight, the disk traveled at an
average speed of 13.0 meters per second. How long did the disk remain in the air?
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(plug and chug) (number and unit)
6. A comet is cruising through the solar system at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per hour for 3.6 hours time. What is
the total distance traveled by the comet during this time?
Substitution Answer
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(plug and chug) (number and unit)

7. How much time does it take for a bird flying at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour to travel a distance of 2,100
kilometers?
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(plug and chug) (number and unit)

8. If Jimmy throws the football 50 meters in 3 seconds, what is the average speed of the football?
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(plug and chug) (number and unit)

9. If it takes Lisa 2.8 seconds to run from the batters box to first base at an average speed (velocity) of 6.5 meters
per second, what is the distance she covers in that time?
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(plug and chug) (number and unit)

10. Mike rides his motorcycle at an average speed of 20 meters/second for 800 seconds, how far did he ride?
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(plug and chug) (number and unit)

11. Tina’s calculations of the tarantula found that the spider was able to cover 30 centimeters in 7 seconds, what
was the average speed of the spider?
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Equation
(plug and chug) (number and unit)
12. If you shout into the Grand Canyon, your voice travels at the speed of sound (340 m/s) to the bottom of the
canyon and back, and you hear an echo. How deep is the Grand Canyon at a spot where you can hear your echo
5.2 seconds after you shout?
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