Monday, November 7, 2011

Stuck on a word problem?

The force needed to keep a car from skidding on a curve varies jointly as the weight of the car and the square of its speed and inversely as the radius of the curve. It takes 2800 pounds of force to keep an 1800 pound car from skidding on a curve with radius 425 feet at 45 mph. What force is needed to keep the same car from skidding when it takes a similar curve with radius 450 feet at 55 mpth? Round to the nearest ten pounds.

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