Two cars, one going east at a rate of 90 km / hr and the other south at 60 km / hr are travelling toward the intersection of two roads, at what rate are the cars approach each other at the instant where the first car is 0.2km and the other is 0.015 km away from the intersect?

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Two cars, one going east at a rate of 90 km / hr and the other south at 60 km / hr are travelling toward the intersection of two roads, at what rate are the cars approach each other at the instant where the first car is 0.2km and the other is 0.015 km away from the intersect?
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