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One way to approximate thisb intuitively: braking distance is approximately quadratic in speed. 100^2/70^2 is ~2, so the faster car will need about twice as far to stop. Since we know this car slows down from 70 to 0 in the given distance, then that's also the distance to slow from 100 to 70.


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