Question

You drive a car 1600 ft to the east, then 2500 ft to the north. The trip took 2.5 minutes. What was the magnitude of your average velocity?

Answer 1

Answer:

$Velocity=6.03m/s$

Explanation:

Given data

Time t=2.5 minutes=150 seconds

Distance A=1600 ft=487.68 m........east

Distance B=2500 ft=762m ........north

To find

Average velocity

Solution

First we need to find the resultant distance magnitude.To find that we apply Pythagorean theorem to find hypotenuse

So

$A^{2}+B^{2}=C^{2}\\ C=\sqrt{A^{2}+B^{2}}\\ C=\sqrt{(487.68m)^{2}+(762m)^{2}}\\ C=904.7m$

$Velocity=\frac{Distance}{Time}\\Velocity=\frac{904.7m}{150s}\\Velocity=6.03m/s$