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How Fast is That Car? Easy Speed and Distance Calculator

This document covers speed, distance, and time calculations, providing formulas and examples for various scenarios.

  • Introduces the fundamental relationships between speed, distance, and time
  • Presents practical examples involving cars, trains, cyclists, and sprinters
  • Demonstrates how to calculate average speed, distance traveled, and time taken
  • Includes problems with different units of measurement (miles, kilometers, meters)
  • Offers step-by-step solutions to example problems
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24/03/2023

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Tuesday 3rd January 2023
speed, distance, time
distance Speed x time
Speed: distance: time
time: distance - Speed.
a car travels 30 miles in

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Advanced Speed, Distance, and Time Problems

This page delves deeper into speed, distance, and time calculations, presenting more complex problems and their solutions.

Example: Calculate the speed of a car:

  • Given: Distance = 120 miles, Time = 2 hours
  • Solution: Speed = 120 miles ÷ 2 hours = 60 mph

Example: Find the distance traveled by a train:

  • Given: Speed = 50 km/h, Time = 4 hours
  • Solution: Distance = 50 km/h × 4 hours = 200 km

Example: Determine the time taken by a sprinter:

  • Given: Speed = 10 m/s, Distance = 200 meters
  • Solution: Time = 200 meters ÷ 10 m/s = 20 seconds

These examples demonstrate the versatility of the speed, distance, and time formulas across different scenarios and units of measurement.

Highlight: Practicing these varied problems enhances your ability to use speed distance time calculators mentally and solve real-world problems involving average speed of a car km/h or miles per hour calculator scenarios.

Vocabulary:

  • mph: miles per hour
  • km/h: kilometers per hour
  • m/s: meters per second

Understanding these units and their conversions is crucial for accurately solving speed, distance, and time problems across different measurement systems.

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How Fast is That Car? Easy Speed and Distance Calculator

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This document covers speed, distance, and time calculations, providing formulas and examples for various scenarios.

  • Introduces the fundamental relationships between speed, distance, and time
  • Presents practical examples involving cars, trains, cyclists, and sprinters
  • Demonstrates how to calculate average speed, distance... Show more

Tuesday 3rd January 2023
speed, distance, time
distance Speed x time
Speed: distance: time
time: distance - Speed.
a car travels 30 miles in

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Advanced Speed, Distance, and Time Problems

This page delves deeper into speed, distance, and time calculations, presenting more complex problems and their solutions.

Example: Calculate the speed of a car:

  • Given: Distance = 120 miles, Time = 2 hours
  • Solution: Speed = 120 miles ÷ 2 hours = 60 mph

Example: Find the distance traveled by a train:

  • Given: Speed = 50 km/h, Time = 4 hours
  • Solution: Distance = 50 km/h × 4 hours = 200 km

Example: Determine the time taken by a sprinter:

  • Given: Speed = 10 m/s, Distance = 200 meters
  • Solution: Time = 200 meters ÷ 10 m/s = 20 seconds

These examples demonstrate the versatility of the speed, distance, and time formulas across different scenarios and units of measurement.

Highlight: Practicing these varied problems enhances your ability to use speed distance time calculators mentally and solve real-world problems involving average speed of a car km/h or miles per hour calculator scenarios.

Vocabulary:

  • mph: miles per hour
  • km/h: kilometers per hour
  • m/s: meters per second

Understanding these units and their conversions is crucial for accurately solving speed, distance, and time problems across different measurement systems.

Tuesday 3rd January 2023
speed, distance, time
distance Speed x time
Speed: distance: time
time: distance - Speed.
a car travels 30 miles in

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Speed, Distance, and Time Calculations

This page introduces the fundamental concepts of speed, distance, and time, providing essential formulas and practical examples for calculations.

Definition: The relationship between speed, distance, and time is expressed through three key formulas:

  • distance = speed × time
  • speed = distance ÷ time
  • time = distance ÷ speed

Example: A car travels 30 miles in 30 minutes. To calculate its average speed:

  1. Convert time to hours: 30 minutes = 0.5 hours
  2. Apply the speed formula: Speed = 30 miles ÷ 0.5 hours = 60 mph

The page also presents additional scenarios to practice these calculations:

  1. A cyclist's journey over 6 hours
  2. A train traveling at 25 mph for a certain distance
  3. A car's journey of 60 miles at 20 mph

Highlight: Understanding these formulas and practicing with various examples helps in mastering how to calculate average speed in km/hr and solving problems involving speed, distance, time formula.

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Just amazing. Let's me revise 10x better, this app is a quick 10/10. I highly recommend it to anyone. I can watch and search for notes. I can save them in the subject folder. I can revise it any time when I come back. If you haven't tried this app, you're really missing out.

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This app has made me feel so much more confident in my exam prep, not only through boosting my own self confidence through the features that allow you to connect with others and feel less alone, but also through the way the app itself is centred around making you feel better. It is easy to navigate, fun to use, and helpful to anyone struggling in absolutely any way.

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