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Posted by annonomus on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 1:14am.

A track athlete runs exactly one complete lap of the track, 400 m circumfrence, in 4.02x10^1 seconds. What is the velocity of the athlete , to two significant figures, if they are assumed to run with a constant velocity for the entire time?

Physics - drwls, Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 7:48am
Can you divide the circumference by the lap time?

That will be the average speed.

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