True: Velocity is a vector so you can have negative numbers as well..therefore you could have an average of zero velocity but speed is not a vector so even if you are driving backwards, and that would make the velocity negative because the direction is reversed, you still are going in reverse at a certain speed so your speed would not be zero.
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True. If you were to travel 100 miles away from home at 55 mph, and travel back home at 55 mph your average speed would be 55 mph but your average velocity would be 0 since the vectors in each direction cancel each other out for velocity.
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