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Grade 11Mechanics

A thief is running away on a straight road in jeep moving with speed 9ms-1 a police man chases him on a motorcycle moving at speed 10ms-1 if instantaneous separation of jeep and motorcycle is 100 m how long will it take to catch the thief.

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9 Years agoGrade 11
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ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer9 Years ago
Dear Aditya please find the solution I am giving,Relative to the thief, the policeman is moving at a speed of 1 m/s, the thief forgetting the fact that, he himself is in motion.10-9=1So, all we have to do is to calculate, how much time it takes for a body, travelling in uniform velocity of 1m/s to cover 100m.And that is 100 seconds