SOLUTION: you leave your house and walk half an hour at a speed of 3 miles per hour. then you run for 15 minutes at a speed of 7 miles per hour. You ae halfway to town. Write and solve an eq

Question 1112634: you leave your house and walk half an hour at a speed of 3 miles per hour. then you run for 15 minutes at a speed of 7 miles per hour. You ae halfway to town. Write and solve an equation to find the distance from your house to town.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Half hour means hour.
15 minutes means hour.

Basic rule for constant travel rates is .

Your problem describes the sum of two distances. That sum is given or described as HALF of a full distance.

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