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Suppose a car merges into freeway traffic on a 200 -m-long ramp. If its initial velocity is 10 m/s and it accelerates at 2 m/s2, how long does it take to travel the 200 m up the ramp? (Such information might be useful to a traffic engineer.) v0=__m/s |
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