A racing tortoise covers $360 cm$ in $9$ seconds. How fast is it walking?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-20T16:30:25

The speed is 40 cm/sec or 0.4 m/sec

This is a distance speed time question.

$360$ cm is a distance, and $9$ seconds is the time taken

"How fast ?" is asking for the speed.

$"speed" = "distance"/"time"$

$"speed" = 360/9 = 40 " cm per sec"$

A more usual unit for speed would be m/sec, which would be
$0.4$ m/sec

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