Question

At 2:00pm a car's speedometer reads 60mph, and at 2:10pm it reads 65mph. Use the Mean Value Theorem to find an acceleration the car must achieve.

Answer( in mi/h2):
The line joining those two points has slope

(65-60) / (10/60)

That is the value v'(t) must achieve.
50mph^2

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