How Do You Figure Out the Rate Traveled if You Know the Distance and Time?

How Do You Figure Out the Rate Traveled if You Know the Distance and Time?

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This tutorial provides a great real world application of math! Follow along with this tutorial to figure out how fast you need to go to travel a certain distance in a certain amount of time.

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