Posted by Tony on Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 11:04pm.
The average speed is 2.5 m/s, both accelerating and decelerating. So it is 2.5 m/s for the whole trip.
The elapsed time is the distance divided by the average speed, or 18/2.5 = 7.2 seconds
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