- A1400 m
- B1000 m
- C400 m
- D1200 m
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Overtaking needs a gain of 400 m at m/s: 200 s. The faster runner covers m. (1000 m is the slower runner's distance.)
Answer: A) 1400 m
Two runners leave the same point of a 400 m track together and run the same way at 7 m/s and 5 m/s. How far has the faster runner gone when he first overtakes the slower one?
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