Warm-Up: Using Calculus to Issue Speeding Fines Consider the following scenario:

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Warm-Up: Using Calculus to Issue Speeding Fines Consider the following scenario: A police officer sees a suspicious car on a highway on-ramp. The officer radios ahead to a highway patrol officer 30 km along the highway. 16 minutes later, the car reaches the location of the highway patrol officer and is clocked going 100 km/hr The driver of the car is given a ticket for exceeding the 100 km/hr limit MXB105 Semester Two 2017 Using an appropriate mathematical theorem, explain why the officer is able con- clude that the driver exceeded the speed limit?

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As When officer gives a radio to 30 km ahed at the time when driver crosses him.

After 16 min driver crosses the officer and officer concluded that he cover 30km in 16 min

km per min are =30/16 = 1.876 km per min

speed in hours = 1.876*60 =112.5

So, that drivers average speed in last 30 km is 112.5, by this method officer concluded that driver excceded the speed limit

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