Speed and Acceleration Word Problems

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Speed and Acceleration Word Problems

• Be sure to show your work. You should have a
  formula triangle for each problem.

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• If it takes 2 hours to travel 8200 meters, what
  is the average speed in meters/min?

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• A car has an average speed of 32 miles per hour.
  How far can it travel in 7 hour and 15 minutes?

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• How long does it take to travel 330 miles, if the
  average speed is 59 miles per hour?

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• A football field is about 100 m long. If it
  takes a person 20 seconds to run its length, how
  fast (what speed) were they running?

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• The pitchers mound in baseball is 85 meters from
  the plate. It takes 4 seconds for a pitch to
  reach the plate. How fast is the pitch?

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• If you drive at 100 km/hr for 6 hours, how far
  will you go?

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• Every summer I drive to Michigan. It is 3900 km
  to get there. If I average 100 km/hr, how much
  time will I spend driving?

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• The fastest train in the world moves at 500
  km/hr. How far will it go in 3 hours?

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• A bullet travels at 850 m/s. How long will it
  take a bullet to go 2 km. (Hint you will need
  to remember metric conversions)

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• It is 21,000 kilometers around the earth and the
  earth rotates once every 24 hours. How fast is
  the earth rotating?

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• What is the speed of a rocket that travels 9000
  meters in 12.12 seconds?

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• What is the speed of a jet plane that travels 528
  meters in 4 seconds?

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• The space shuttle Endeavour is launched to an
  altitude of 500,000 m above the surface of the
  Earth. The shuttle travels at an average speed
  of 700 m/s. How long will it take for Endeavor
  to reach its orbit?

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• How long will your trip take (in hours) if you
  travel 350 km at an average speed of 80 km/hr?

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• How many seconds will it take for a satellite to
  travel 450 km at a speed of 120 m/s?

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• How far (in meters) will you travel in 3 minutes
  running at a speed of 6 m/s?

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• What is the speed of a car that traveled a total
  of 75 km in 1.5 hours?

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• What is the speed and velocity of a plane that
  traveled 3000 miles from New York to California
  in 5 hours?

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• John took 45 minutes to bicycle to his
  grandmothers house, a total of 4 km. What was
  his speed in kilometers per minute? What was his
  speed in kilometers per hour?

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• It took 3.5 hours for a train to travel the
  distance between two cities at a speed of 120
  km/hr. How many kilometers are there between the
  two cities?

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• A car goes from 0 to 100 km/hr in 10 sec. What
  is its acceleration?

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• A bus slams on its breaks and goes from 30 km/hr
  to 15 km/hr in 4 sec. What is the acceleration?

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• A meteoroid changed velocity from 1.0 km/s to 1.8
  km/s in .03 seconds. What is the acceleration of
  the meteoroid?

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• The space shuttle releases a space telescope into
  orbit around the earth. The telescope goes from
  being stationary to traveling at a speed of 1700
  m/s in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of
  the satellite?

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• A car traveling at 10 m/s starts to decrease
  steadily. It comes to a complete stop in 20
  seconds. What is the acceleration?

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• An airplane travels down a runway for 4.0
• seconds with an acceleration of 9.0 m/s². What
  is the change in velocity during this time?

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• Pete the penguin loves to sled down his favorite
  hill. If he hits a speed of 50 m/s after 5
  seconds, what is his rate of acceleration?

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• A car traveling at a speed of 25 m/s increases
  its speed to 30.0 m/s in 10.0 seconds. What is
  the acceleration?

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• In 0.5 seconds, a projectile goes from 0 to 300
  m/s. What is the acceleration of the projectile?