SOLUTION: An aircraft carrier left hawaii traveling west seven hours before a container ship. The container ship traveled in the opposite direction going 5 km/h slower than the aircraft carr
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Question 1048094: An aircraft carrier left hawaii traveling west seven hours before a container ship. The container ship traveled in the opposite direction going 5 km/h slower than the aircraft carrier for six hours after which time the ships were 540 km apart. ?Find the aircraft carrier's speed?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can think of this as one of them
standing still and the other one traveling
at the sum of their speeds
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Let = the speed of the aircraft carrier in km/hr
= the speed of the container ship in km/hr
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and
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The aircraft carrier's speed is 47.5 km/hr
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check:
km
and
km
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km
OK
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