SOLUTION: If you had to travel 100 miles & you only could travel at speed , you had remaining starting at the speed of 100mph and droped your speed down to 99.10 then 99.9mph and so on and s

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Question 423080: If you had to travel 100 miles & you only could travel at speed , you had remaining starting at the speed of 100mph and droped your speed down to 99.10 then 99.9mph and so on and so on. how long would it take to travel 100 miles?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
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An interesting question, but long would you travel at each speed or is it a continuous deceleration, if so at what rate?
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If you had to travel 100 miles & you only could travel at speed , you had remaining starting at the speed of 100mph and dropped your speed down to 99.10 then 99.9mph and so on and so on. how long would it take to travel 100 miles?
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Assuming that his speed drops to 0 when he reaches 100 mi
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The average speed = starting speed - ending speed, divided by 2:
%28100-0%29%2F2 = 50 mph
Time = dist/speed
time = 100/50
time = 2 hrs