Bill and Amy want to ride their bikes from their neighborhood to school which is 14.4 kilometers away. It takes Amy 40 minutes to arrive at school. Bill arrives 20 minutes after Amy. How much faster (in meters/second) is Amy's average speed for the entire trip?

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Bill and Amy travel the same distance from home to school of 14.4 kilometers. Amy takes 40 minutes of time to arrive to school which means she has a rate of 14.4 km /40 minutes or 6 meters/ second. Bill takes a total 60 minutes to arrive to school. Hence Bill's rate is equal to 14.4 km/60 minutes or 4 meters/ second.Amy's is 2 m/s faster than Bill's speed, then.