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Distance Displacement Velocity Practice Problems

This document contains two worksheets with questions about calculating distance, displacement, speed, time, and rate. The first worksheet has 6 questions asking students to calculate the total distance traveled and displacement for paths involving multiple legs in different directions. The second worksheet has 9 questions about using the speed, time, distance equations to solve word problems related to running, driving, bullet speed, train and light travel times. Students are asked to show their work and include units in their answers.

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Distance Displacement Velocity Practice Problems

This document contains two worksheets with questions about calculating distance, displacement, speed, time, and rate. The first worksheet has 6 questions asking students to calculate the total distance traveled and displacement for paths involving multiple legs in different directions. The second worksheet has 9 questions about using the speed, time, distance equations to solve word problems related to running, driving, bullet speed, train and light travel times. Students are asked to show their work and include units in their answers.

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Distance and Displacement Worksheet Name:________________________ Section____________

For each question plot the path on the grid paper.

1. Chanice drives her scooter 7 kilometres north. She stops for lunch
and then drives 5 kilometres east. What distance did she cover?
What was her displacement?

2. Anthony walks to the pizza place for lunch. He walk 1 km east, then
1 km south and then 1 km east again. What distance did he cover?
What was his displacement?

3. On his fishing trip Justin rides in a boat 12 km south. The fish aren’t biting so they go 4 km west. They
then follow a school of fish 1 km north. What distance did they cover? What was their displacement?

4. Tara goes on a camel safari in Africa. She travels 5 km north, then 3 km east and then 1 km north
again. What distance did she cover? What was her displacement?

5. Alex goes cruising on his dirt bike. He rides 700 m north, 300 m east, 400 m north, 600 m west, 1200
m south, 300 m east, and finally 100 m north. What distance did he cover? What was his
displacement? (use 1 cm = 1m scale)

6. Jose buys a new moped. He travels 3 km south and then 4 km east. How far does he need to go to get
back to where he started?

Distance and Displacement Worksheet Name:________________________ Section____________


For each question plot the path on the grid paper.

1. Chanice drives her scooter 7 kilometres north. She stops for lunch
and then drives 5 kilometres east. What distance did she cover?
What was her displacement?

2. Anthony walks to the pizza place for lunch. He walk 1 km east, then
1 km south and then 1 km east again. What distance did he cover?
What was his displacement?

3. On his fishing trip Justin rides in a boat 12 km south. The fish aren’t biting so they go 4 km west. They
then follow a school of fish 1 km north. What distance did they cover? What was their displacement?

4. Tara goes on a camel safari in Africa. She travels 5 km north, then 3 km east and then 1 km north
again. What distance did she cover? What was her displacement?

5. Alex goes cruising on his dirt bike. He rides 700 m north, 300 m east, 400 m north, 600 m west, 1200
m south, 300 m east, and finally 100 m north. What distance did he cover? What was his
displacement? (use 1 cm = 1m scale)

6. Jose buys a new moped. He travels 3 km south and then 4 km east. How far does he need to go to get
back to where he started?
Calculating speed, time, distance

Name ______________________________________ Section ____________________

Equations:

Directions: Use the equation above to answer the following questions. Show your work and include the units.

1. A football field is about 100 m long. If it takes a person 20 seconds to run its length, how fast (what speed)
were they running?
2. The pitcher’s mound in baseball is 85 m from the plate. It takes 4 seconds for a pitch to reach the plate. How
fast is the pitch?
3. If you drive at 100 km/hr for 6 hours, how far will you go?
4. If you run a t 12 m/s for 15 minutes, how far will you go?
5. Every summer I drive to Pennsylvania. It is 895 km to get there. If I average 100 km/hr, how much time will
I spend driving?
6. A bullet travels at 850 m/s. How long will it take a bullet to go 1 km?
7. Every winter I fly home to Chicago. It takes 3 hours. What is my average speed?
8. The fastest train in the world moves at 500 km/hr. How far will it go in 3 hours?
9. How long will it take light moving at 300,000 km/s to reach us from the sun? The sun is 15,000,000 km from
earth.

Calculating speed, time, distance

Name ______________________________________ Section ____________________

Equations:

Directions: Use the equation above to answer the following questions. Show your work and include the units.

1. A football field is about 100 m long. If it takes a person 20 seconds to run its length, how fast (what speed)
were they running?
2. The pitcher’s mound in baseball is 85 m from the plate. It takes 4 seconds for a pitch to reach the plate. How
fast is the pitch?
3. If you drive at 100 km/hr for 6 hours, how far will you go?
4. If you run a t 12 m/s for 15 minutes, how far will you go?
5. Every summer I drive to Pennsylvania. It is 895 km to get there. If I average 100 km/hr, how much time will
I spend driving?
6. A bullet travels at 850 m/s. How long will it take a bullet to go 1 km?
7. Every winter I fly home to Chicago. It takes 3 hours. What is my average speed?
8. The fastest train in the world moves at 500 km/hr. How far will it go in 3 hours?
9. How long will it take light moving at 300,000 km/s to reach us from the sun? The sun is 15,000,000 km from
earth.

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