For the orange cart,
 = (1m/s + 1m/s)/2 = 1m/s. (It had better!)
Its displacement is just (1m/s) (4s) = 4m which is confirmed by our graph. Of course we don't really need to do all that since the velocity is constant.
For the blue cart,
= (0m/s + 2m/s)/2 = 1m/s.
Its displacement is also (1m/s) (4s) = 4m which is again confirmed by our graph and by our initial observation that both objects have the same displacements.
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