SOLUTION: You are riding home from a party and the has been drinking. The car is traveling at 60. mi per hour. Suddenly a child steps into the road ahead. Because the driver has been drinkin

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Question 9198: You are riding home from a party and the has been drinking. The car is traveling at 60. mi per hour. Suddenly a child steps into the road ahead. Because the driver has been drinking his reaction time has been slowed by 1.0 second. How many feet toward the impending accident will the car travel before the driver begins to stop?
Answer by rapaljer(4551) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
60 miles per hour = %28+%2860+mi%29%2F%281+hr%29+%29%2A+%28%285280+ft%29%2F%281+mi%29%29+%2A+%28%281+hr%29%2F%283600+sec%29%29 = 88+%28ft%29%2F%28sec%29+

Therefore the car will move 88 ft in the 1 second that the driver is recovering from the alcohol!! PLUS other side effects of the alcohol that cause delays in thinking and poor judgment! DON'T DRINK (even a little bit!) and DRIVE!!!

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