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The driver of a car makes an emergency stop by slamming on the car's brakes and skidding to a stop. How far would the car have skidded if it had been traveling twice as fast

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Answer:

The car would have skidded 4 times as far if it had been traveling twice as fast.

User Yazmin
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Answer:

4 times as far

Step-by-step explanation:

It is kinda hard but this equation should explain x−x0=v0v0a0−a0v202a20=v202a0 so 4 times (and if you would have been going 3 times as fast it would be 9 times as far...)

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