SOLUTION: What would be the equation for, A friend calls you and asks you to meet at a location 3 miles from your home in 20 minutes. You set off on your bike after the telephone call. Write
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Question 347307: What would be the equation for, A friend calls you and asks you to meet at a location 3 miles from your home in 20 minutes. You set off on your bike after the telephone call. Write and solve an inequality to find out an average rate in miles per minute you could ride to be at your meeting place within 20 minutes?
Answer by nyc_function(2741) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
speed=(distance/time)
distance to be travelled=3miles
therefore....distance/speed is less than or equal to time
3/speed is less than or equal to 20mins
therefore cross multiply
speed greater than or equal to (3/20)miles per min
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