Distance Problems

The time it takes for a canoe to go 4 miles upstream and back 4 miles downstream is 5 hours. The current in the lake is 2 mile per hour.  Find the average speed (rate) of the canoe in still water.

Jay walked 1/2 mile to school. After school, he walked 1/3 mile to his aunt’s house. Afterwards, he walked 5/6 mile home. If Jay walks the same path every day, Monday through Friday, how many miles does he walk in one week?

• 1 2/3 miles

• 3 5/11 miles

• 5 5/6 miles

• 8 1/3 miles

What are you solving for when you have a problem that asks how far an object has traveled?

• Speed

• Distance

• Time

Total distance divided by total time is

• average speed

• constant speed

• instantaneous speed

• acceleration

What is the speed of an object that travels 60 meters in 4 seconds?

• 240 m/s

• 15 m/s

• 0.067 m/s

• 15 mph

What is the speed of an object that travels 20 meters in 4 seconds?

• 80 m/s

• 0.2 m/s

• 5 m/s

• 24 m/s

A runner races in the 100 meter dash.  It takes her 10 seconds to finish.  What is her average speed?

• 10 m/s

• 1000 m/s

• 100 seconds

• 10 seconds

If it takes Heather 3 seconds to run from the batter's box to first base at an average speed of 6.5 meters per second, what is the distance she covers in that time?

• 19.5 m

• 0.46 m

• 2.2 m

• 3.5 m

Bart ran 5,000 meters from the police at an average speed of 6 meters/second before he got caught. How long did he run?

• 30,000 s

• 0.0012 s

• 833.3 s

• 212 s

Sarah backstrokes at an average speed of 8 meters per second. How long will it take her to complete a 200-meter race?

• 0.04 s

• 1600 s

• 50 s

• 25 s