SOLUTION: When you are in a car traveling at a steady velocity for a known amount of time, how can you determine how far you have traveled. (I need the formula and how you got it.) I have

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Question 805485: When you are in a car traveling at a steady velocity for a known amount of time, how can you determine how far you have traveled. (I need the formula and how you got it.) I have found a couple answers but they are not giving much detail and are not very easy for me to understand.
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When you are in a car traveling at a steady velocity for a known amount of time, how can you determine how far you have traveled. (I need the formula and how you got it.)
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If you go 1 km per hour for 1 hour ---> 1 km
1 km per hour means in an hour, you go 1 km
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distance = rate*time
distance (km) = r (km/hr) * t (hr)
Notice how the units cancel