A track coach measures the 100-meter time of a track athlete. The runner completes the distance in 11.5 seconds. If the stopwatc
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Answer:
The average velocity is 0.15 m/s
Explanation:
Use the definition of average velocity as the distance traveled divided the time it took.
Since the movement was on the plane from the origin (0, 0) to the point (-30, 20) corresponding to 30 m west and 20 m north, we calculate the distance using the distance between two points on the plane:
Then the magnitude of the average velocity can be estimated via the quotient between distance divided time, but since the units required are meters per second, we first convert the four minute time into seconds: 4 * 60 = 240 seconds.
Then the average velocity becomes: