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2. A toy car is moving at 13 cm/s when it begins accelerating at 1.4 cm/s2. If the acceleration is uniform, what is the speed of the car after it has traveled a distance of 27 cm?
a. 2.4 x102cm/s
b. 93 cm/s
c. 62 cm/s
d. 16 cm/s
e. none of all
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