SOLUTION: Two buses leave the Cubao Terminal at the same time bound for the Bicol Region. Bus A travels at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour (kph) while Bus B travels at 100 Kph. How many

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Question 1143442: Two buses leave the Cubao Terminal at the same time bound for the Bicol Region. Bus A travels at the speed of 90 kilometers per hour (kph) while Bus B travels at 100 Kph. How many minutes will the two buses be 10 kilometers apart?
Answer by ikleyn(52798)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Their relative speed is 100 km/h - 90 km/h = 10 km/h, which means that the bus B runs away from the bus A at the rate of 10 km/h.

Therefore, the two buses will be 10 km apart in 1 hour, i.e. in 60 minutes.


In algebra language, the distance between the buses is  100*t - 90*t  kilometers,


and it will be 10 kilometers at the time t


    100t - 90t = 10,    or


     10t       = 10


       t       =  = 1 hour = 60 minutes.      ANSWER

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