SOLUTION: Rory walks from home to Jakes house to borrow a bicycle and then rides home along the same route. By walking at 4 mph and riding at 8 mph Rory takes 45 minutes for the entire round

Question 1103320: Rory walks from home to Jakes house to borrow a bicycle and then rides home along the same route. By walking at 4 mph and riding at 8 mph Rory takes 45 minutes for the entire round trip. Find the distance that Rory walked
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

SPEED TIME DISTANCE WALK 4 d RIDE 8 d ALL

Distance walked is the same as distance bike-ridden.

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Answer by greenestamps(13214) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The walking speed is half the bicycling speed, so twice as much time is spent walking as bicycling.
The total time was 45 minutes, so 30 minutes was spent walking and 15 minutes was spent bicycling.
30 minutes (half an hour) at 4mph equals 2 miles.

He walked 2 miles.
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