A Bicyclist Starts Down a Hill with an Initial Speed

question 3

Short Answer

A bicyclist starts down a hill with an initial speed of 2.0 m/s. She moves down the hill with a constant acceleration, arriving at the bottom of the hill with a speed of 8.0 m/s. If the hill is 12 m long, how long did it take the bicyclist to travel down the hill?

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Budget Line

A graphical representation showing all possible combinations of two goods that can be purchased given a consumer's income and the prices of the goods.

Price

The sum of money anticipated, needed, or provided as payment for an item.

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An economic term referring to the expansion of a production possibility frontier, indicating an increase in an economy's capacity to produce.

Budget Lines

Graphical representations of all possible combinations of two goods that a consumer can afford given their income and the prices of the goods.