SOLUTION: A person travels to a destination at a rate of fifty mph and returns the next day at a rate of forty mph. If the time returning is one hour more than the time going, how many miles
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Question 972461: A person travels to a destination at a rate of fifty mph and returns the next day at a rate of forty mph. If the time returning is one hour more than the time going, how many miles are traveled in all?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = time in hrs going
= time in hrs returning
= one-way distance traveled
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Going:
(1)
Returning:
(2) |
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Substitute (1) into (2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
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(1)
(1)
and
(2)
(2)
(2)
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The person traveled
400 mi total
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