Physics

To determine the average velocity, we need to find the distance first:

 

We can calculate the area of the polygon formed by the graph with the time – axis.

From to

The area of a trapezoid , where and are the parallel sides and is the height. Here, , , and .

So . The distance traveled is the absolute values of the displacements,

 

From to

The area of a trapezoid

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