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kk asked in Education & ReferenceHomework Help · 1 decade ago

How do police detectives use math in their job?

PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE help me. its for a school paper and its already late. please help me as fast as possible. please list as many ways as possible. im having trouble in this class and need to do the best i possible can. Thank you soooooooooo much!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Measure skid marks and calculate speed of vehicle

    Measure angles of bullet trajectories

    Take the temperature of dead bodies and figure out time of death

  • 1 decade ago

    process of elimentation

    adding up fines

    angle for shooting

    calculate time for when u can get to a crash/robbery suspect

    example is the robbery suspect

    Suspect is going on East on Highway 23 at 60 mph you start the cop starts twenty miles behind him on Highway 23 going East going 120 mph, how long will it take for the cop to catch the suspect.

    I believe the anwser is twenty minutes

    Source(s): umm brain
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