A car is parked near a cliff overlooking the ocean on an incline that makes an angle of 19.9◦ with the horizontal. The negligent driver leaves the car in neutral, and the emergency brakes are defective. The car rolls from rest down the incline and has a velocity 5 m/s when it reaches the edge of the cliff. The cliff is 44.5 m above the ocean. How far is the car from the base of the cliff when the car hits the ocean in m? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .

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A car is parked near a cliff overlooking the ocean on an incline that makes an angle of 19.9 with the horizontal. The negligent driver leaves the car in neutral, and the emergency brakes are defective. The car rolls from rest down the incline and has a velocity 5 m/s when it reaches the edge of the cliff. The cliff is 44.5 m above the ocean.

How far is the car from the base of the cliff when the car hits the ocean in m? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .

 

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