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A car brakes from 18 m/s to 6.0m/s in 3.0 seconds. How far did it travel in this time?

I got 36 m...
15 years ago

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bobpursley
The average velocity is (18+6)/2

or 12m/s

distance=avgvelocity*time

There are much harder ways to solve this.
15 years ago

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