Question

A car is traveling down the highway cruise control at 50m/s (this means its is traveling with a constant velocity NOT accelerating). If it does this for 5 minutes (300s), how far does it travel?

Answer 1

Given parameters:

Speed of car = 50m/s

Time of travel = 5minutes (300s)

Unknown;

Distance of travel = ?

To solve this problem, we need to understand how speed relates with distance and time.

 Speed is a physical quantity. It is the distance traveled divided by time taken.

                Speed  = $\frac{distance}{time}$

   So,

                Distance  =  speed x time

Input the parameters and solve for the distance;

               Distance  = 50m/s x 300s

               Distance  = 15000m

The distance covered during this time interval and speed is 15000m