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The nearest grocery is 60m, east from your house. You are walking at 1.2 m/s for 15.0 s toward the grocery when it started to rain and when you ran back to your house to get an umbrella. It took you another 5.0s to go back to your house. You start walking again at 1.2 m/s until you reach the grocery. (a) What is your average speed? (b) what is your average velocity?
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