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Question 8

You are in a car going 70 km/h and another car passes you going in the opposite direction at 70 km/h. Do both cars have the same velocity?
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Answer:

kind of

Step-by-step explanation:

When comparing the velocities of two cars, the speed of the cars matters as much as the direction of the cars. That is because velocity is a vector quantity and vector quantities have two things going for them: the magnitude or size and the direction.

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