College Algebra 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305115546
ISBN 13: 978-1-30511-554-5

Chapter P, Prerequisites - Section P.9 - Modeling with Equations - P.9 Exercises - Page 72: 62

Answer

The woman needs to travel at $54.99$ m/hr to pass the truck in $6$ seconds.

Work Step by Step

-The back of the women's car is at $-14ft$ of the back of a truck. and after passing the front of the truck, the back of the women's car is at $0ft$ in front of the truck's front. Therefore, the woman needs to travel $14ft+$length of the truck to pass the truck. $14ft+30ft=44ft$.To pass the truck in $6$ seconds, $44ft\div6sec=7.33 ft/sec$. So the woman needs to travel $7.33ft/sec$ more than the truck's speed of $50m/hr$ to pass the truck in $6$ seconds. $\frac{1ft/sec}{7.33ft/sec}=\frac{0.681818m/hr}{x}$ $x=4.999m/hr$. Therefore, The woman needs to travel at $54.99m/hr$ to pass the truck in $6$ seconds.
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