SOLUTION: A person riding a motorcycle leaves an hour after a person riding a bicycle. Both travel the same road. If the person riding the bicycle is traveling at 10 miles per hour and the p

Question 1053907: A person riding a motorcycle leaves an hour after a person riding a bicycle. Both travel the same road. If the person riding the bicycle is traveling at 10 miles per hour and the person riding the motorcycle is traveling at 50 miles per hours, how long will it take the motorcycle to overtake the bicycle?
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One of the typical catchup problems.

RT=D.

SPEED TIME DISTANCE MOTORCYC 50 t d BIKE 10 t+1 d

Make the system and solve.
Answer by ikleyn(52776)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A person riding a motorcycle leaves an hour after a person riding a bicycle. Both travel the same road.
If the person riding the bicycle is traveling at 10 miles per hour and the person riding the motorcycle is traveling
at 50 miles per hours, how long will it take the motorcycle to overtake the bicycle?
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t = = = of an hour = 15 minutes.

10 = 10 miles is the distance between them when the motorcycle starts moving.

50-10 = 40 mph is their relative speed.

Must be solved momentarily.

Answer by MathTherapy(10551)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A person riding a motorcycle leaves an hour after a person riding a bicycle. Both travel the same road. If the person riding the bicycle is traveling at 10 miles per hour and the person riding the motorcycle is traveling at 50 miles per hours, how long will it take the motorcycle to overtake the bicycle?

Let time the motorbike takes, be T
Then time bicycle takes = T + 1
The following DISTANCE equation is thus formed: 50T = 10(T + 2)
Solve for T, the time the motorbike takes!
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