SOLUTION: You drive for 1 mile at a constant velocity of 30 mph. You then want to instantly speed up and drive another mile so that your average velocity for the 2 miles is 60 mph. What vel

Question 987261: You drive for 1 mile at a constant velocity of 30 mph. You then want to instantly speed up and drive another mile so that your average velocity for the 2 miles is 60 mph. What velocity must you drive for the second mile?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You drive for 1 mile at a constant velocity of 30 mph.
You then want to instantly speed up and drive another mile so that your average velocity for the 2 miles is 60 mph.
What velocity must you drive for the second mile?
:
An impossible situation, you have already used up the allotted time, covering the first mile, the time required to travel two miles at an average of 60 mph.
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