A highway engineer wants to estimate the maximum number of cars that can safely travel on a particular road at a given s

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A highway engineer wants to estimate the maximum number of cars that can safely travel on a particular road at a given s

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A highway engineer wants to estimate the maximum number of cars that can safely travel on a particular road at a given speed. She assumes that each car is 16 feet long, travels at speed s, and follows the car in front of it at a safe distance for that speed. She finds that the number N of cars that can pass a given spot per minute is modeled by the function 81s N(s) 16 +16 16( 19 At what speed can the greatest number of cars travel safely on that road? S =
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