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Homework Statement
Due to several previous unfortunate encounters with law enforcement, your car has been equipped with a GPS tracking device. You know that this device radios your current position to police headquarters at precisely hour intervals, but you don't know the exact time at which this occurs (i.e. it could be every hour on the hour, or every hour on the quarter hour, or something else). If the police can prove that you've driven faster than 100 km/hr at any point, then you are busted.
You have been driving from State College to Sandy Springs, Utah (the latest hot Spring Break destination) along a perfectly straight road for several hours at a leisurely constant speed of 80 km/hr. Sandy Springs is only 46 km ahead. You realize that you can now speed up for the remainder of the trip, without getting busted.
What is the maximum average speed at which you can finish the drive to Sandy Springs, with no chance of getting busted by your GPS tracker?
Homework Equations
At first, I tried using d = 1/2 (v0 +v)t since we don't know the acceleration. But we don't even know the time, so I tried using v^2=v0^2 +2ad, but we still don't know the acceleration. I'm starting to think that this problem requires more than 1 kinematics equation. But I don't know which ones. Can someone please help me?
The Attempt at a Solution
No idea.