SOLUTION: A spider crawled from the picnic basket to home at an average speed of 5 feet per minute, and then crawled back the same way at an average speed of 7 feet per minute. If the round

Question 1107390: A spider crawled from the picnic basket to home at an average speed of 5 feet per minute, and then crawled back the same way at an average speed of 7 feet per minute. If the round trip took 1 minute and 30 seconds, how many feet is the spider's one-way trip from the picnic basket to home?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The trip from the basket to home:
Let = the one-way distance
(1)
(2)
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Plug (1) into (2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
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(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
and

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The one-way trip is 4 ft 4.5 in
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check:
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
OK

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