Quiz 9 (Do as GOAL)

As state legislators look to cut the budget, a friend calls you with this "great" idea that he thinks may save the state millions of dollars. Your friend, who works as a legislative aide,was looking at the transportation improvement budget and noticed that the design for banked turns does not take friction into account. Your friend is eager to present this information to his boss but wants you to check it out for him first by calculating how much less a curve would have to be banked if friction is taken into account for a car traveling on the Greenway (417) in the rain.

Table of friction coefficients.