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What is the difference between average and instantaneous speed?

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What is the difference between average and instantaneous speed?

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Average speed is the distance traveled divided by the time. (xf – xi)/(tf – ti) (Ex in your car take the distance traveled from your odometer and divide it by the time it took you to go from start to finish) Instantaneous speed (How fast you are going at one point in time like the reading on you speedometer) results from decreasing the time interval to almost zero.