SOLUTION: I have two questions to ask here, the first is: 1) Pip can run four times as fast as she walks. One day she walked for 3 hours and ran for 2 hours. If she covered 55km altogethe

SOLUTION: I have two questions to ask here, the first is: 1) Pip can run four times as fast as she walks. One day she walked for 3 hours and ran for 2 hours. If she covered 55km altogethe

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Question 408079: I have two questions to ask here, the first is:
1) Pip can run four times as fast as she walks. One day she walked for 3 hours and ran for 2 hours. If she covered 55km altogether. How fast did she walk?
The second one is:
2) How many litres of 15% sugar solution must be added to 5 lires of 10$ sugar solution to make a 12% sugar solution?
Please Help!
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

If you have two questions, go back and make two posts. Read the instructions, "One question per post"

Let

represent the walking rate. Then

is the running rate.

Since distance equals rate times time, the distance walked must be

and the distance ran must be

. The sum of these distances is 55, so:

Solve for

John

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