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प्रश्न
What do you understand by the average speed of a body?
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उत्तर
Average speed of a body can be defined as ratio of total distance covered by a body In total time.
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Figure 1 Vehicles moving in the same direction on a road

Figure 2 Position of vehicles shown in Figure 1 after some time
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