Weve been given two checkpoints with the speed clocked at both:

1:05 PM going 68 mph

1:14 PM going 68 mph
From the data we are given, we know that it took 9 minutes to travel 12.5 miles. We
need to use a closed interval from [a,b] to find the speed. To get the necessary
numbers, we need to take 9 minutes in terms of an hour,

9
60 , with gives us 0.15

hours. Now we can begin calculating.

a = 0, f(a) = 0, b = 0.15 f(b) = 12.5
We can now use the Mean Value Theorem to calculate the speed in that segment
(our c):

f ' ( c )=

f ( b )f (a) 12.50
=
83.33
ba
0.150

So, we can conclude that the driver was going about 83.33 mph in that segment,
13.33 mph more than the denoted safe speed of 70 mph.