SOLUTION: Two sailboats are 9.8 miles apart and sailing toward each other. The larger boat sails 4 miles per hour faster than the smaller boat. The two boats pass each other after 0.7 hour.

Question 659054: Two sailboats are 9.8 miles apart and sailing toward each other. The larger boat sails 4 miles per hour faster than the smaller boat. The two boats pass each other after 0.7 hour. Find the speed of each boat.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can think of one boat as standing
still and the other approaching at the
sum of their speeds.
Let = the speed of the smaller boat
= the speed of the larger boat
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The speed of the smaller boat is 5 mi/hr
The speed of the larger boat is 9 mi/hr
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