What is the average speed of a car that traveled 300.0 miles in 5.5 hours?

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Answer:

54.54 miles per hour

Explanation:

You do 300 divided by 5.50 to get 54.545454 but you can estimate it to be about 54.54 miles per hour.

So, top average speed of car was 54.54 mph.

The average speed of will be "0.41 m/s".

Speed and Distance:

According to the question,

Distance = 300.0 miles

Time = 5.5 hours

We know,

[tex]300.0[/tex] miles = [tex]482803[/tex] meters

Now,

By converting 5.5 hours into seconds, we get

= [tex]5.5\times \frac{60}{1}\times \frac{3600}{1}[/tex]

= [tex]1,188,000[/tex]

hence,

The speed will be:

= [tex]\frac{482803}{1188000}[/tex]

= [tex]0.406[/tex] or, [tex]0.41 \ m/s[/tex]

Thus the above answer is right.

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