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Q: A car traveling 70 miles per hour is 20 miles behind a truck traveling 50 miles per hour. How long will it take the car to overtake the truck?
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Jessica is traveling 50 mph in her truck After 5 hours how far will she have traveled?

250 miles


In a brake test a truck traveling 85 miles per hour can decrease its speed by 73 percent every half second Approximatly how long will it take for the truck to stop?

6%


How many feet does it take to stop a two ton truck?

That depends on how fast the truck is traveling.


How many feet does it take a traveling truck to stop when going 55 miles per hour?

If you have another piece of information, like "the truck is slowing down at a rate of 30m/s2", then you would be able to work this out, but without additional information, this question can not be accurately answered.


A car traveling 70 mph is 20 meters behind a truck traveling 50 mph how long will it take the car to override the truck?

1st you must turn the meters into miles or the mph into meters per hour. I will turn the meters into mi. So, 1 meter = 6.214*10^-4 miles. You get the truck's equation is y=70x, the car's equation is y=50x+20*6.214*10^-4 because its 20 meters ahead of the truck. Set them equal to each other and you get 70x=50x+20*6.214*10^-4 ----> subtract 50x from both sides, and you get: 20x = 20*6.214*10^-4 -------> divide both sides by 20 to leave x with a coefficient of 1: x = 6.214*10^-4 -----------> that's the portion of an hour which it would take you. If you consider each hour has 60 minutes, you multiply x by 60 and you get the answer in minutes. 60*6.214*10^-4 = 3.72*10^-2 if you multiply that by 60 you get the answer in seconds: 60*3.72*10^-2 =2.23. So there, it would take the truck 2.23 seconds to get to the car.

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If your going 70 miles per hour 20 miles behind a truck traveling 50 how long will it take you to overtake the truck-?

One hour


If your going 70 miles per hour 20 miles behind a truck traveling 50 how long will it take you to overtake the truck?

One hour


A car traveling 70 miles per hour is 20 miles behind a truck traveling 50 miles per hour how long will it take the car to overtake the truck?

an hour and one minute


A car traveling 96 km h is 100 m behind a truck traveling 75 km h how long will it take the car to reach the truck?

The car is gaining on the truck, and the space between them is closing, at (96-75) = 21 km/hr.The car will overtake the truck in (100/21000) hour = (60/210) minutes = (3600/210) = 17.143 seconds (rounded)


What is they easiest way to commit suicide?

jump in front of truck traveling 75 miles semi truck


When you are caught behind a very slow truck going up a long hill you should?

you should stay behind it till zigzag road comes to end and then overtake it from the right side


Jessica is traveling 50 mph in her truck After 5 hours how far will she have traveled?

250 miles


The 18 wheeler is traveling at 8 mph more than a rental truck the 18 wheeler drives 220 miles and the rental truck drives 198 miles how fast was the rental truck goin?

72 MPH.


In a brake test a truck traveling 85 miles per hour can decrease its speed by 73 percent every half second Approximatly how long will it take for the truck to stop?

6%


A car and a truck are traveling at the same speedWhich has more momentum why?

If a car and a truck are traveling at the same speed, the truck would have more momentum because it has a greater mass.


Who is at fault when one truck hits another truck from behind when in motion?

the truck behind the other car


A truck uses 15 gallons to travel 180 miles How much gasoline will the truck use to travel 252 miles?

What you first need to do is figure out how many miles you can travel on one gallon of gas. And then multiply this by how far you're traveling.