A cyclist is riding a path in a park that is a distance of 23 miles. He takes an hour and 15 minutes to complete the path and finishes the circuit to finish where he started. What value would you find to find his pace?

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The values you are given are distance (23 miles) and time (one hour and 15 minutes). Since the track is a circuit, he starts and ends in the same spot. His displacement is 0 and thus his average velocity is 0 m/s. We do not know how his velocity is changing throughout the course and average displacement has no useful meaning in most contexts. The value that would tell you his pace would be distance/time which is the equation for average speed.

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