How do you prove that a car was accelerating at exactly 120mph/h at some point in its trip?

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How do you prove that a car was accelerating at exactly 120mph/h at some point in its trip?

If the car's speedometer was 30mph at 2pm and at 2:10pm it read 50mph, how do you know that at some point in its trip it was accelerating at 120mph/h? Prove with the Mean Value Theorem.

2006-11-01 16:57:50 · 2 answers · asked by Smiley 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics

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You have change in velocity and a change in time. What are YOU going to do with that information?

2006-11-01 17:01:12 · answer #1 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

You can not prove that No Way.
You need motrre information : for instanct that the speed function is continous. If you tell all the assumtions that are made I will solve this one for you

2006-11-01 17:08:26 · answer #2 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋