SOLUTION: A car is traveling down the road. It drove for 50 seconds and in that time it traveled 100 meters.What's the speed of the car?

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Question 940531: A car is traveling down the road. It drove for 50 seconds and in that time it traveled 100 meters.What's the speed of the car?
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It drove for 50 seconds and in that time it traveled 100 meters.What's the speed of the car?
Find how many meters per second
100%2F50 = 2 m/sec
convert to km/hr (3600 sec in 1 hr)
%283600%2A2%29%2F1000 = 7.2 km/hr