Engineers Are Designing a Curved Section of a Highway

question 83

Multiple Choice

Engineers are designing a curved section of a highway.If the radius of curvature of the curve is at what angle should the curve be banked so that a car traveling at 29.0 m/s will stay on the road without the aid of frictional forces?

• A) 23.9°
• B) 16.7°
• C) 21.0°
• D) 26.1°

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Definitions:

Class Intervals

Specific ranges within a dataset that are used to group data into classes for the purpose of creating frequency distributions or histograms.

Histogram

A graphical representation of data using bars of different heights to show the frequency of data in adjacent intervals.

Distribution

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First Quartile

The first quartile is a statistical measure that divides a data set into four equal parts, representing the value below which 25% of the data falls.