SOLUTION: Team Awesome starts hiking up from base camp which is located at 4400 feet at a steady rate of 600 feet/hour. At the same time, team cool, which has hiked up earlier, leaves the to

Question 1137306: Team Awesome starts hiking up from base camp which is located at 4400 feet at a steady rate of 600 feet/hour. At the same time, team cool, which has hiked up earlier, leaves the top of the peak at 8900 feet and starts hiking down at a steady rate of 900 feet/hour. After how many hours do the two teams pass each other ?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Then distance between them is ft
Add their rates of climbing
ft/hr
Let = time in hrs until they pass each other

hrs
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check:

ft
and

ft
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ft
OK
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