SOLUTION: An aircraft carrier can travel 450 km in the same time a container ship travels 300 km. If the aircraft carrier was travelling 5 km/h faster what was the speed of the container shi

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Question 1160889: An aircraft carrier can travel 450 km in the same time a container ship travels 300 km. If the aircraft carrier was travelling 5 km/h faster what was the speed of the container ship?
Don left Vancouver and drove towards Hope BC at a speed of 120 km/h. Brad left Hope at the same time and drove towards Vancouver at a speed of 90km/h. If Hope is 122 km from Vancouver how far had they each driven when they passed each other on the highway?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The first problem:
              SPEEDS       TIME               DISTANCES

Carrier        r+5          450/(r+5)             450

Ship            r           300/r                 300                

-----------"in the same amount of time"

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