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    Jan 5, 2011, 04:04 AM
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    A car covered 215 km in 4 hours. What is its average speed to the nearest whole kilometer ?
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    Jan 5, 2011, 06:01 AM

    As curly ben said, use totaldistance/totaltime. Also, are you sure it asks to the nearest kilometer? And not to the nearest kilometer per hour or something? Because otherwise the units are wrong.

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