Question

A 5 m long car is overtaking a 19 m long bus. The bus is travelling at a constant speed of 25 m/s. The car takes 3 s to overtake the bus. We assume that overtaking starts when the frontmost part of the car crosses the backmost part of the bus and ends when the backmost part of the car crosses the frontmost part of the bus. So at what constant speed (in m/s) is the car driving?

Answer 1

Length of a car is 5m

Length of bus is 19m

Velocity of bus is 25ms-¹

Explanation:

Assuming that overtaking start from front most part to back most part

Distance travel by car is 19m+5m=24m

Let velocity of bus be Vc and of car be Vb

Now

Velocity of car is 32ms-¹