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a kid is on a skate board going 14kph and trows a set of keys on the ground at 8kph. the spped of the keys relitive to the gound is?

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To determine the speed relative to the ground, since the ground is our reference frame, it would be v = 0, for the kid on the skateboard, you would need to take into account the speed that he/she is going and the speed of the keys thrown at.

I believe.
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