SOLUTION: One man leaves New York for Boston and travels 9 miles per hour another man leaves Boston for New York and travels 7 miles per hour . In how many hours will they meet the cities be
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Question 1073444: One man leaves New York for Boston and travels 9 miles per hour another man leaves Boston for New York and travels 7 miles per hour . In how many hours will they meet the cities being 224 miles apart
Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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= = 14 hours.
See the lessons
- Travel and Distance problems
- Travel and Distance problems for two bodies moving in opposite directions
- Travel and Distance problems for two bodies moving in the same direction (catching up)
in this site.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this textbook under the topic "Projectiles launched/thrown and moving vertically up and dawn".
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