SOLUTION: Two cars leave towns 750 kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is 14 kilometers per hour more than the other's. If they meet in 5

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Question 1094454: Two cars leave towns
750
kilometers apart at the same time and travel toward each other. One car's rate is
14
kilometers per hour more than the other's. If they meet in
5
hours, what is the rate of the faster car?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let each rate be r and r-14.
Since opposite directions toward each other, approach rate is 2r-14.

RT=D



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