SOLUTION: if a child sets out from school walking at a pace which will take 20 minutes to get home, and an adult sets out from home and at a pace that will take him 10 minutes to get to scho

Question 237422: if a child sets out from school walking at a pace which will take 20 minutes to get home, and an adult sets out from home and at a pace that will take him 10 minutes to get to school, when will they meet? Also give an equation to your answer?
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if a child sets out from school walking at a pace which will take 20 minutes to get home, and an adult sets out from home and at a pace that will take him 10 minutes to get to school, when will they meet? Also give an equation to your answer?
:
We can treat this as a "shared work" problem
Let the dist between the school and home = 1
Let t = time required for them to meet
:
+ = 1
Multiply each term by 20
t + 2t = 20
3t = 20
t =
t = 6 min or 6 min 40 sec
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