Question

What is the speed of a bobsled whose distance time graph indicates that it traveled 125m in 15s?

Answer 1

In order to calculate the speed, we can use the formula below:

$speed=\frac{distance}{time}$

Now, using the distance traveled of 125 meters in the interval of time of 15 seconds, the speed is:

$\begin{gathered} speed=\frac{125}{15}\\ \\ speed=8.33\text{ m/s} \end{gathered}$

Therefore the speed is 8.33 m/s.