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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Regardless the distance, if you do 30 up and 90 back, the average is (30+90)/2.

Not quite there. You’re just adding two different MPH figures and getting an average of the two. But, if you drove one mile at 30 MPH, it would take you 2 minutes, or 120 seconds. If you drove that same mile back at 90 MPH, it would take you 40 seconds. For a grand total of 160 seconds to drive 2 miles. That is an average of 80 seconds per mile or 45 MPH.

It’s easier to realize at a distance of 60 miles each direction. To average 60 MPH, you would have to make the round trip in two hours (120 miles/2 hours = 60MPH). But the first 60 miles took you two hours to drive at 30 MPH. That leaves no time for the return trip. There is no solution.

31 posted on 05/22/2020 3:28:32 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

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38 posted on 05/22/2020 3:38:50 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Why isn’t infinite speed a solution? At infinite speed, your return trip time would be zero and you would have averaged 60.

I suppose you are now going to argue about the Special Theory of Relativity, C, And all those picayune annoyances.


51 posted on 05/22/2020 4:11:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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