Question
How can you calculate the following?
Speed from distance-time graph?
Speed from distance-time graph?
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Answer
Speed is equal to the slope of the distance-time graph.$\text{Slope = Speed}=\frac{\text{Change in distance}}{\text{Change in time}}$
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