Average Speed

Average speed explained in an easy to understand way:

Average Speed Simple Definition
Average Speed Definition

Imagine you're trying to figure out how much money you spend on groceries each month. Just like you calculate your monthly grocery expenses by adding up all your receipts and dividing by the number of weeks, average speed is found by dividing the total distance traveled by the total time taken. In both cases, you're determining a rate: for groceries, it's your spending per week, and for speed, it's the distance per unit of time.

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Average Speed Definition

Average Speed: The distance an object travels divided by total time taken. Average speed. It tells you how fast something is moving overall during a period of time.