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A tourist being chased by an angry bear is running in a straight line toward his car at a speed of 3.9 m/s. The car is a distance d away. The bear is 23 m behind the tourist and running at 6.0 m/s. The
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A tourist being chased by an angry bear is running in a straight line toward his car at a speed of 3.9 m/s. The car is a distance d away. The bear is 23 m behind the tourist and running at 6.0 m/s. The tourist reaches the car safely. What is the maximum possible value for d?
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If it takes
seconds to reach the car, then the distance
is
.
The bear's distance from the tourist's starting point is
For maximum
, we set the equations equal to each other:
so the distance is
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