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bigzee20
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Homework Statement
A race car driver buys a car that can accelerate at 5.9m/s^2. The racer decides to race against another driver in a souped up stock car. Both start from rest, but the stock car driver leaves 1.4s before the driver of the sports car. The stock car moves with an acceleration of 4.1m/s^2. What is the time it takes the sports car driver to overtake the stock car driver.
i have tried solving it using the formula x= 1/2at+Vi(t) but i get 4.68s which is wrong what is it that iam not doing correctly?