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My Rocket-Car

My new rocket-car can go from 0 to 48 miles per hour in the same amount of time it takes my old Flintstone car to go from 0 to 5 miles per hour.

If my Flintstone car accelerates at a rate of 1.25 mph per second, what is my rocket-car's acceleration?

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s2

 

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