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If you divide the total distance traveled on a car trip by the time for the trip, are you calculating the average speed or magnitude of the average velocity? Under what circumstances are the two quantities are the same?

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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
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ISBN: 9780321625922

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