Question

A car is travelling along the road where the speed limit is 30 mph. A speed detector measures it speed as 15 m/s. Use this fact to work out whether or not the car is breaking the speed limit: there are 1609 m in a mile

Answer 1

The speed of the car is in from as the required speed limit on the road.

Step-by-step explanation:

The speed limit on the road is 30 miles per hour.

Given that: 1 mile = 1609 m

Also,

60 second = 1 minutes

60 minutes = 1 hour

Then,

30 miles per hour =
`(30 *1609)/(60*60)`

=
`(48270)/(3600)`

= 13.4083

30 miles per hour = 13.41 m/s

The speed measured by the detector is 15 m/s which is not accurate. Therefore, the car was moving at the required speed limit. The speed of the car is lesser than that measured by the detector. Thus no offence has been committed by the driver.