SOLUTION: Five cars in a race all finished within 8 seconds of each other. Car A finished 1 second ahead of Car D, and car D was not the last. Car B finished 6 seconds before car E. Car E fi

Question 1002092: Five cars in a race all finished within 8 seconds of each other. Car A finished 1 second ahead of Car D, and car D was not the last. Car B finished 6 seconds before car E. Car E finished 3 seconds behind Car A. Car A finished 5 seconds behind Car C. In what order did the cars finish?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = time of finish of car A in sec
Let = time of finish of car B in sec
Let = time of finish of car C in sec
Let = time of finish of car D in sec
Let = time of finish of car E in sec
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(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
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From (3),
(3)
and
(2)
and
(1)
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So far, I have the order of finish:
C B A D E
That looks like the order of finish
from 1st to last
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