SOLUTION: your friends house is 2 miles away from yours. You bike for 1/2 hour from you friends house in the opposite direction and end up 6 miles from home. about how long will it take to g

Question 217830: your friends house is 2 miles away from yours. You bike for 1/2 hour from you friends house in the opposite direction and end up 6 miles from home. about how long will it take to get home if you take the same route
Found 2 solutions by rfer, MathTherapy:
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
D=rt
r=D/t
r=6/.5
r=12 mph
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t=D/r
t=8/12
t=.667 hr or 40 min
Answer by MathTherapy(10551) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
your friends house is 2 miles away from yours. You bike for 1/2 hour from you friends house in the opposite direction and end up 6 miles from home. about how long will it take to get home if you take the same route

Since you're 2 miles from home, and since you bike for 1/2 hour, from your friend's house in the opposite direction and end up 6 miles from home, you would have traveled 4 miles from your friend's house.

Speed from your friend's house, in the opposite direction is 8 mph , or

Since you're 6 miles from home, your average rate of speed will be the same 8 mph, then time to get home would be:

= of an hour, or minutes.
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