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A thief sees a jeep at a distance of 250m coming towards him at 36 km/h. Thief takes 5 second to realize that there is nothing but the police is approaching him by the jeep and start running away from police at 54km/h. But police realize after 10 secs. When the thief starts running away that he is actually a thief and gives chase at 72 km/h. How long after thief saw police did police catchup with him and what is the distance police had to travel to do so ?

A

50 s, 1000 m

B

65 s, 1150 m

C

65 s, 1300 m

D

45 s, 1050 m

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