How can you find the distance travelled by a body in uniform motion from the velocity$-$time graph?

  • A
    By calculating the slope of the graph.
  • B
    By calculating the area under the graph.
  • C
    By calculating the intercept of the graph.
  • D
    By calculating the product of velocity and time at a single point.

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