Accident Reconstruction Police sometimes use the following procedure to estimate the speed at which a car was traveling at the time of an accident. A police officer drives the car involved in the accident under conditions similar to those during which the accident took place and then skids to a stop. If the car is driven at 30 miles per hour, then the speed at the time of the accident is given by
Here, a is the length of the skid marks left at the time of the accident, and p is the length of the skid marks in the police test. Find s, to the nearest unit, for the following values of a and p.
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