Question 8

A motorist is moving along a straight road with a uniform acceleration. The motorist passes a village X with velocity of 8 ms^-1 and another village Z with a velocity of 13 ms^-1. The distance between X and Z is 2700 m. If village Y is the midpoint of the distance between X and Z, find, correct to the nearest whole number, the time taken by the motorist to move from X to Z.