SOLUTION: ted left his home traveling at 40mph. His father left 2 hours later traveling in the same direction at 55mph.how many hours will it take his father to overtake ted

Question 1063933: ted left his home traveling at 40mph. His father left 2 hours later traveling in the same direction at 55mph.how many hours will it take his father to overtake ted
Answer by ikleyn(52788) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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= = hours = 5 hours and 20 minutes.

2*40 in the numerator is the distance for Ted been ahead at the moment the father started his move/travel.

55 - 40 = 15 in the denominator is their relative speed (which is the rate of decreasing the distance between them).

The remaining explanation is the formula Time = .

Solved.

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