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A bicyclist covers a distance of 62 meters in 30 s. what is the velocity of the bicyclist?

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Step-by-step explanation:

the velocity is defined as distance / time interval.

so, the velocity of our bicyclist is

62/30 m/s

I guess the request is to present this as a single number of meters per (one) second.

so, we need to bring the above fraction into the form

x/1 m/s = x m/s

what do we need to do, to transform 30 into 1 ? we need to divide by 30.

and to keep the value of the original fraction (a ratio in our case), we need to divide also the numerator (62) by 30.

we get :

62/30 / 30/30 = (62/30) / (30/30) =

= 2.066666666.../1 m/s

the standardized velocity of the bicyclist is

2.066666666... m/s

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