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Posted by Deepa on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:17pm.

You are driving to the grocery store at 12.2 m/s. You are 193.0 m from an intersection when the traffic light turns red. Assume that your reaction time is 0.790 s and that your car brakes with constant acceleration. How far are you from the intersection when you begin to apply the brakes?

physics - bobpursley, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 7:18pm
distancetraveled=velocity*reactiontime.

subtract that from the initial distance to the light.

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