Answer to Question #65279 in Mechanics | Relativity for adu

Question

A car driver travelling at 90km/h, notices that he is heading directly to a cliff when he is 20m away from the edge. He applies the brakes and experiences a backward acceleration of 8.0 m/s2, but it's not enough. The car goes off the cliff, if the cliff is 12m high, how far is the car traveling horizontally until it lands?