Doc Hudson challengers Lightning McQueen to a 400 m race, because Lightning McQueen's acceleration of 3.5 m s ^-2 is larger than Doc Hudson's acceleration of 3.0 m s ^-2 , Lightning McQueen gives Doc Hudson a 50 m head start. Assume the cars can maintain their accelerations for the entire race (unrealistically, but we're considering a race between talking cars). Who wins and by how much time?

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