SOLUTION: A women can walk 2 mph faster down a trail to Cochita lake than she can on the return trip uphill. It takes her 2 hr to get to the lake and 4 hr to return. What is speed walking do

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Question 1020506: A women can walk 2 mph faster down a trail to Cochita lake than she can on the return trip uphill. It takes her 2 hr to get to the lake and 4 hr to return. What is speed walking down to the lake.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39627)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
                rate          time         distance

DOWNHILL        r+2            2            

UPHILL          r              4            

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