SOLUTION: Hi, my problem deals with two vehicles that are driving towards eachother on a road. Each Car is going 30 mph towards eachother. They are 200 ft. apart. At 200 ft. how long will
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Question 274100: Hi, my problem deals with two vehicles that are driving towards eachother on a road. Each Car is going 30 mph towards eachother. They are 200 ft. apart. At 200 ft. how long will it take for the two of them to meet? Can you help me? Found 2 solutions by nerdybill, Alan3354:Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Each vehicle has to travel half that distance to meet. Therefore, we want the time it takes for a car moving at 30mph to travel 100 ft.
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distance formula:
d = rt
solving for t:
t = d/r
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First, convert miles-per-hour to feet-per-second
30 mph * 5280 feet/mile = 158400 feet per second
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t = 100 feet / 158400 feet per second
t = .00063 seconds
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Hi, my problem deals with two vehicles that are driving towards eachother on a road. Each Car is going 30 mph towards eachother. They are 200 ft. apart. At 200 ft. how long will it take for the two of them to meet?
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The cars approach at the sum of the speeds, = 60 mph
You can deal with conversions and find that 15 mph = 22 ft/sec
--> 60 mph = 88 ft/sec
200 feet/88 ft/sec = 2.2727... seconds
