SOLUTION: At 9am two cars started from the same town and traveled north on the same road. one car averaged 45 miles per hour, and the other car averaged 40 miles per hour. In how many hours

Question 1035378: At 9am two cars started from the same town and traveled north on the same road. one car averaged 45 miles per hour, and the other car averaged 40 miles per hour. In how many hours were the cars 30 miles apart?
Answer by ikleyn(52800) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
At 9am two cars started from the same town and traveled north on the same road. one car averaged 45 miles per hour,
and the other car averaged 40 miles per hour. In how many hours were the cars 30 miles apart?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

= = 6 hours is your answer.

45 - 30 = 5 mph is their relative speed.

It is the rate of increasing the distance between two cars.

Each hour the distance between two cars increases in 5 mph.

RELATED QUESTIONS
At 9:00 am, two cars started from the same town and traveled north on the same road. One... (answered by stanbon)

two cars started from the same town and traveled east on the same road. they began their... (answered by josmiceli)

two cars travel the same route to a town that is 200 miles from where they started and... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

Two cars started from the same point and traveled on a straight course in opposite... (answered by checkley77)

Two cars started from the same point and traveled on a straight course in opposite... (answered by richwmiller)

2. Two cars started from the same point and traveled on a straight course in opposite... (answered by stanbon)

Two cars started from the same point and traveled on a straight course in opposite... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

Two cars started from the same point and traveled on a straiht course in opposite... (answered by Alan3354)

Two cars leave town at the same time trabeling in opposite directions One car travels at... (answered by josmiceli)