SOLUTION: if i take a trip to michigan traveling 50 miles per hour and on the way back taking the same route travel 60 miles per hour how many miles would i have traveled to michigan if the

Question 40210: if i take a trip to michigan traveling 50 miles per hour and on the way back taking the same route travel 60 miles per hour how many miles would i have traveled to michigan if the round trip took 10 hours?
Answer by Paul(988) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the distance:
EQUATION:

60x+50x=30000
110x=30000
x=272.7 (rounded)
Hence, you have travelled 272.7 miles.
Paul.
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