A car is travelling on a straight horizontal road. The velocity of the car, \(v\) ms\(^{-1}\), at time \(t\) seconds as it travels past three points, \(P\), \(Q\) and \(R\), is modelled by the equation
\(v = at^2 + bt + c\),
where \(a\), \(b\) and \(c\) are constants.
The car passes \(P\) at time \(t = 0\) with velocity \(8\) ms\(^{-1}\).
- State the value of \(c\). [1]
The car passes \(Q\) at time \(t = 5\) and at that instant its deceleration is \(0.12\) ms\(^{-2}\). The car passes \(R\) at time \(t = 18\) with velocity \(2.96\) ms\(^{-1}\).
- Determine the values of \(a\) and \(b\). [4]
- Find, to the nearest metre, the distance between points \(P\) and \(R\). [2]