SOLUTION: Tom and Bill agreed to race a 50-foot pool and back again. They started together, but Tom and Bill agreed to race a 50-foot pool and back again.. If their rates were constant, and

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Question 616521: Tom and Bill agreed to race a 50-foot pool and back again. They started together, but Tom and Bill agreed to race a 50-foot pool and back again.. If their rates were constant, and Tom finished the race in 27 seconds, how long did Bill take to finish it?
A)28 sec
B)30 sec
C)33 1/3 sec
D)35 sec
E)37 sec

Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 
Hi,
Tom and Bill agreed to race a 50-foot pool and again. (100 ft)
Tom finished in 27sec, feet ahead of Bill
how long did Bill take to finish it? = 90ft/27sec = AMP Parsing Error of [10ft/3sec]: Invalid function '': opening bracket expected at /home/ichudov/project_locations/algebra.com/templates/Algebra/Expression.pm line 70. .
27sec + 3sec = 30sec is the time it took Bill to finish
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