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Distance/Displacement – Relative Motion – Speed

(1). What are the distance and the displacement of the race car drivers in the Indy 500 (804,672-
meter race on circular race track where cars start and finish at the same place)?

(2). A sail boat in the Great South Bay travels 2 miles east and then 4 miles south to get to Fire Island.
What is its distance and displacement?

(3). If you were running on the weekend for exercise and you covered 3,218 m in 12 minutes what
was your average speed?

(4). Danielle decided on a sunny Saturday morning to go the Saint Anthony’s track and ran 400m (one
time around the track). She complete the run in 6 minutes and 38 seconds.
(a). What was her distance?

(b). What is her displacement?

(c). What is her average speed?

(d). What is her average velocity?

(5). A student walks 100 meters East in 50 seconds, and then turns around and walks 40 meters
West in 20 seconds.
(a). What is the students total distance traveled?

(b). What is the students displacement?

(c). What is the students average speed?