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Direction: Read & analyze the given problems. Show your complete solutions.1) Bothe the car & truck moves to south. The car covers a distance of 80 km in 4 hours while the truck covers 50 km in 2 hours. What is the speed & velocity? Which vehicle moves faster?

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1) Take into account that the distance traveled by both car and truck is the same to their displacements (this is because the car and the truck only made one trajectory to the south).

The speed is the quotient between distance and time, then, based on the given information, you can write:

car speed = 80 km/4 h = 20 km/h

truck speed = 50 km/2 h = 25 km/h

The velocity includes, besides the speed, the direction of the motion, both car and truck move to the south, then:

car velocity is 20 km/h to the south

truck velocity is 25 km/h to the south

Then, you can conclude:

truck moves faster than car (truck is 5 km/h faster than car)

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