SOLUTION: two snails that are 432cm apart crawl toward each other at rates that differ by 2cm. per minutes if it takes the snails 27 minutes to meet how fast is each snail crawling.?

Question 495919: two snails that are 432cm apart crawl toward each other at rates that differ by 2cm. per minutes if it takes the snails 27 minutes to meet how fast is each snail crawling.?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can think of this as 1 snail being fixed and the
other moving at the sum of their speeds.
Let the speed of the moving snail =
cm/min
given:

and

The snail's speeds are
9 cm/min
7 cm/min
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check answer:
Faster snail:

Slower snail:

and

as it should be
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