SOLUTION: miguel drove his car 80 kilometers per hour (km/h), while rico drove 64km/h for the same number of hours. if miguel finished driving 96km more than rico, how many hours did they tr

Question 1043980: miguel drove his car 80 kilometers per hour (km/h), while rico drove 64km/h for the same number of hours. if miguel finished driving 96km more than rico, how many hours did they travel?

Found 2 solutions by KMST, advanced_Learner:
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
THE FIFTH GRADER ANSWER:
Going faster than Rico,
Miguel gains each hour.
In other words, each hour they drive, Miguel drives more than Rico.
By the time the extra distance Miguel has driven gets to ,
the number of hours they have been driving is .
Answer by advanced_Learner(501) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let be rico distance
then migual travelled
now everything in terms of time t
rico time
=
miguel time

which means
=/
=
=

time for is 384/64 which is hours
for miguel it is (384+96)/(80) which is also hours amazing

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