SOLUTION: A car travels from Town S to Town T in three hours. If a straight line were drawn between the two towns, it would be 153 miles long, but the road that travels between the two towns

Question 1108253: A car travels from Town S to Town T in three hours. If a straight line were drawn between the two towns, it would be 153 miles long, but the road that travels between the two towns is not straight and so the car traveled 198 miles to make the journey. What was the magnitude of the car's velocity and why is that your answer?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the linear distance from S to T is 153 miles this is called displacement.
time taken 3 hours so velocity = 153 /3 = 51 mph

Though the car drove 198 miles to reach T the displacement is the same. So there is no change in magnitude of the velocity of the car.
Velocity = displacement / time
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