Question

You drive at 20mph and return at 30mph.What is the average speed?

Answer 1

Answer to this question is NOT straight forward as taking average of speeds.  People often make mistakes.  Such an average is correct only when I travel for equal durations of time.
=============================
Let us assume I travelled from  A to B, a distance of S miles at 20 mph and then returned back to A at 30 mph.

         Average speed = total distance travelled / total time duration.

So we have to find the quantities on the RHS.

       Time taken to go from A to B = S / 20   hours
       Time taken to return from B to A = S / 30 hours 
 
total time = S [ 1/20 + 1/30 ] = 5 S/60 = S/12 hours

        Average speed = (S+S) / (S/12) = 24 mph