Question

Kirsten walked 230 meters in 50 seconds.

What was Kirsten's rate of speed?

Answer 1

speed=distance/time

Answer 2

Kirsten's rate of speed was ?
m/s.

Answer 3

simply , rate of speed means the distance traveled in a unit time.. here its the distance traveled in a 1 second.

so...
if
230 meter -> in 50 seconds
u have to find how many meters in 1 second

so
rate = 250 m / 50 s

Answer 4

replace the word distance with what was given as the distance
replace the word time with what was given as the time