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Q: A child is running at her maximum speed of 4.0 m/s to catchan ice-cream truck, which is stopped at the side of the road. Whenthe child is 20 m from the truck, the ice-cream truck starts toaccelerate away at a rate of 1.0 m/s2 . Does the childcatch the truck? solve this problem algebraically andgraphically.

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Algebraic method Let the velocity of the child is v 40 ms And the accelerationof the ice cream truck is a 10 ms2And as there is an initial gap d 20 m so    See Answer
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