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Sloan the sloth crawls at 100 meters per hour when crawling uphill, 120 meters per hour when crawling across flat ground, and 150 meters per hour when crawling downhill. One day, Sloan crawls across the forest floor from a tree stump to a spring, and then takes the same route in reverse to return to the tree stump. What was Sloan's average speed during the entire round trip?
Note: The route there isn't all flat ground, there might be ups and downs, + the answer isn’t 125 or 123.5

Answer 1

Let's give some distances
100 up 100 flat 100 down meters
then return 100 up 100 flat 100 down


time required (distance/rate = time ) 200/100 + 200/120 + 200 / 150 = 5 hr

distance 600


distance / time = average speed = 600/5 = 120 m/s