SOLUTION: I need help on this plz A girl starts to walk to her school, which is 20 miles away, at 6:50 and at a rate of 3 miles per hour. After a while, her dad picks her up and drives her t

Question 1028613: I need help on this plz A girl starts to walk to her school, which is 20 miles away, at 6:50 and at a rate of 3 miles per hour. After a while, her dad picks her up and drives her through the remainder of the way at 30 miles per hour. If they arrived at school at 9:00, how far did she walk?
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Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A girl starts to walk to her school, which is 20 miles away, at 6:50 and at a rate of 3 miles per hour.
After a while, her dad picks her up and drives her through the remainder of the way at 30 miles per hour.
If they arrived at school at 9:00, how far did she walk?
:
Find the total time it took her to get to school: 9:00 - 6:50 = 2 hrs 10 min
Change this to hrs; 2 hrs which is hr
:
let w = distance walked
the total dist is 20 mi, therefore
(20-w) = distance driven
:
Write a time equation, time = dist/speed
Walk time + drive time = hrs
+ =
get rid of the fractions, multiply equations by 30, then cancel
10w + (20-w) = 5(13)
10w - w = 65 - 20
9w = 45
w = 45/9
w = 5 miles walked
;
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Check this by finding the actual time walking (5mi) and riding (15mi)
5/3 = 1.67 hrs
15/30 = .5 hrs
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total time 2.17 hrs which is 2 hrs 10 min

Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
DISCLAIMER: No guarantees that this is the way your teacher thinks the problem should be solved. (The result is correct, though).

ONE WAY:
= distance the girl walked, in miles
= distance the girl rode in her dad's car, in miles
= time the girl spent walking towards school, in hours
= time the girl spent riding in her dad's car towards school, in hours
= total time walking and riding to school
is our equation.
Multiplying times ,

So the girl walked before her dad picked her up.

USING SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS:
= time walking to school, in hours
= time riding to school, in hours
= total time walking and riding to school
= miles walked to school
= miles traveled by car going to school

-->-->-->-->
So the girl walked before her dad picked her up.
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