SOLUTION: A manager travels 2000 miles in a jet and then an additional 500 miles by car. If the car takes one hour longer than the jet ride, and if the speed of the jet is 5 times that of t

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Question 1124835: A manager travels 2000 miles in a jet and then an additional 500 miles by car. If the car takes one hour longer than the jet ride, and if the speed of the jet is 5 times that of the car, find the time the manager travels by jet and by car, respectively.
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, greenestamps:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39625)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Jet time, j
Jet speed, 5r
Car time, j+1
Car speed, r

System of Equations,

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Working with the first equation





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Working with the second equation of the system



------speed of the car




---------time on the jet, hours




---------time in the car, hours
Answer by greenestamps(13203)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Let x be the speed of the car; then 5x is the speed of the jet.

time = distance divided by speed:
time in jet = 2000/5x
time in car = 500/x

The time in the car is 1 hour more than the time in the jet:
500/x = 2000/5x+1
500/x = 400/x+1
100/x = 1
x = 100

The speed of the car is x = 100mph; the speed of the jet is 5x = 500mph.

The time in the car is 500/100 = 5 hours; the time in the jet is 2000/500 = 4 hours.
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