SOLUTION: Two search-and-rescue teams leave base at the same time looking for a lost boy. The rst team,on foot, heads north at 2Km/h. and the other, on horseback heads south at 4Km/h. Ho

Question 1043480: Two search-and-rescue teams leave base at the same time looking for a lost boy. The rst team,on foot, heads north at 2Km/h. and the other, on horseback heads south at 4Km/h. How longwill it take them to search a distance of 21Km between them?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Add their rates
Let = time in hrs

It will take them 3.5 hrs to be 21 km apart
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