But credit scores arenât just used by banks. Increasingly, insurance firms, landlords and even employers are using credit scores as a proxy for figuring out how responsible you are. The most widely used score, from a company called FICO, ranges from 300 to 850. On the FICO scale, the higher the number, the better.
Velocity is a vector measurement of the rate and direction of motion or, in other terms, the rate and direction of the change in the position of an object.
Speed is the rate of change in position of a moving quanity, without factoring direction into the equation. Walk forwards or backwards at 2 meters per second, and your speed is just that: 2 m/s. Velocity is speed in the context of direction.