SOLUTION: Batman leaves Gotham city in the Batmobile, driving at an average speed of 95 miles per hour. Four hours and twenty minutes later, the Flash leaves Gotham, chasing Batman at a rate

Question 1108861: Batman leaves Gotham city in the Batmobile, driving at an average speed of 95 miles per hour. Four hours and twenty minutes later, the Flash leaves Gotham, chasing Batman at a rate of 250 miles per hour. How kind does it doe the Flash to catch Batman?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Batman's headstart is

( I converted hrs and min to hrs )
Let = time in hrs for Flash to catch Batman
Let = distance in miles Flash travels
until he catches Batman
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Start a stop watch when Flash leaves Gotham.
Let = time in hrs on stop watch when
flash catches Batman
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Batman's equation:
(1)
Flashes equation:
(2)
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(1)
(1)
(1)
(1) hrs
It takes Flash 2.656 hrs to catch Batman
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check answer:
(2)
(2)
(2)
and
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
close enough
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