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The Police Observe That the Skid Marks Made by a Stopping

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The police observe that the skid marks made by a stopping car are 240 ft long.Assuming the car decelerated at a constant rate of 21 ft/ sec2, skidding all the way, how fast was the car going when the brakes were applied? Round to 2 decimal places.


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Frequency Polygon

A graphical device for understanding the shapes of distributions. They are a type of line graph.

Dichotomous

A characteristic of variables that can take on exactly two distinct and mutually exclusive values.

Level Of Measurement

The classification of data based on the nature and the mathematical properties of the data values, such as nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales.

Nominal

Refers to categorical data that can be categorized but not ranked or ordered in a meaningful way.

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