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A certain car can accelerate to 50 m/s in 7 s. If the engine delivered 4 as much power to the wheels, how many seconds would it take to reach 50 m/s?

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The power delivered to the wheels of the car is proportional to the acceleration. When the engine delivers 4 times the power, the acceleration will also be 4 times as much. The time it takes to reach a certain velocity is inversely proportional to the acceleration. So, if the acceleration is 4 times as much, the time to reach a certain velocity will be 1/4 of the original time.

Original time to reach 50 m/s: 7 seconds

New time with 4 times the acceleration: 7 seconds / 4 = 1.75 seconds

So, it would take 1.75 seconds to reach 50 m/s with 4 times the power delivered to the wheels.

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