SOLUTION: Koech left home to a shopping centre 12km away, running at 8km/hr. 15minutes later, mutua left the same home and cycled to the shopping centre at 20km/hr. Calculate the distance to
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Question 1126541: Koech left home to a shopping centre 12km away, running at 8km/hr. 15minutes later, mutua left the same home and cycled to the shopping centre at 20km/hr. Calculate the distance to the shopping centre at which mutua caught up with koech?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Koech left home to a shopping center away, running at .
..........eq.1
fifteen minutes later, mutual left the same home and cycled to the shopping center at
time is
is same:
....eq.2
they will meet when
solve for
≈
ind distance:
-> Koech
->the distance to the shopping center at which Mutua caught up with Koech
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