A plane flies 600 kilometers away from its bad at 400 meters per second then flies back to its base at 600 meters per second. What is it's average velocity?

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Heidi Wilcox

6 May, 23:58

A plane flies 600 kilometers away from its bad at 400 meters per second then flies back to its base at 600 meters per second. What is it's average velocity?

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Heather Reyes · Answer 1

Seems to me that it flies 400 m/s there and 600 m/s back the same distance.

therefore the average of 400 and 600 is 500 m/s. The distance is the same so the normal formula of (d2-d1) / (t2-t1) is applicable.