If you travel north for a mile and then south for a mile, your average speed:

a. will depend on the direction of your velocity.
b. will be a lot less than the magnitude of your average velocity.
c. will be a lot greater than the magnitude of your average velocity.
d. will depend on how far you finished from where you started.
e. will be the same as the magnitude of your average velocity.


c

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