Speed of the truck relative to the highway


You are in your car driving on a highway at 25m/s when you glance in the passenger side mirror (a convex mirror with radius of curvature 150 cm) and notice a truck approaching. If the image of the truck is approaching the vertex of the mirror at a speed of 1.5mn/s when the truck is 2.0 m away, what is the speed of the truck relative to the highway?

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