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Question 1039049: In a 200-m footrace, one participant covers the first 100 m with an average velocity of 10 m/s and the second 100 m with the average velocity of 8 m/s. What is your average velocity for the entire 200 m? Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! In a 200-m footrace, one participant covers the first 100 m with an average velocity of 10 m/s and the second 100 m with the average velocity of 8 m/s. What is your average velocity for the entire 200 m?
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Avg of a round-trip, or for 2 equal distances:
= 2*10*8/(10+8)
= 80/9
= 8.888... m/sec
