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Vladimir79 [104]
3 years ago
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The highest speed of a cheetah is 100 km/hr and the highest speed of a gazelle is 80 km/hr. If at t = 0 both animals are running

at their respective highest speeds, with the gazelle a distance 100 m ahead of the cheetah, at what time does the cheetah catch up with the gazelle? Both the cheetah and the gazelle run in the same direction in a straight line.
Physics
1 answer:
Tju [1.3M]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

t=18s

Explanation:

The final position of an object moving at constant speed is given by the formula x=x_0+vt, where x_0 is its initial position, v its speed and t the time elapsed.

For the cheetah we have x_c=x_{0c}+v_ct, and for the gazelle x_g=x_{0g}+v_gt. We want to know at which t their positions are equal, that is, x_c=x_g, which means,

x_{0c}+v_ct=x_{0g}+v_gt

Where we can do:

v_ct-v_gt=x_{0g}-x_{0c}

(v_c-v_g)t=x_{0g}-x_{0c}

t=\frac{x_{0g}-x_{0c}}{v_c-v_g}

We then substitute the values we have (the initial position of the cheetah is 0m), writing the meters in km so distance units cancel out correctly:

t=\frac{0.1km-0km}{100km/hr-80km/hr}=0.005hr=18s

On the last step we just multiply by 3600 because is the number of seconds in an hour.

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