SOLUTION: A bottleneck due to an accident on a highway produces two lines of cars each having a length of 720 meters. If the average distance between cars is 2.50 meters and the average leng

Question 205346: A bottleneck due to an accident on a highway produces two lines of cars each having a length of 720 meters. If the average distance between cars is 2.50 meters and the average length of a car is 3.50 meters, how many cars are there?
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
3.5+2.5=6
720*2/6=240
The total space for each car is 6m.
The total distance is 1440m counting both lanes.
Divide the length of car with distance between into total distance gives the number of cars.
Good luck
Bob
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