A Certain Test Car Can Go from Rest to 32

question 491

Multiple Choice

A certain test car can go from rest to 32.0 m/s in 3.88 s. The same car can come to a full stop from that speed in 4.14 s. What is the ratio of the magnitude of the starting acceleration to the stopping
Acceleration?

• A) 1.07
• B) 0.937
• C) 1.14
• D) 0.878

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data from its mean value.

Process Distribution Mean

The average value or central tendency of a distribution for a process' outcomes over a period of time.

Common Variation

Variability in data that is shared among all observations or variables being studied.

Randomly Occurring

Randomly occurring refers to events or phenomena that happen without a predictable pattern, often analyzed in probability and statistics to understand patterns and occurrences in data.