SOLUTION: A school group is traveling together on a school bus. The bus leaves a rest stop on an interstate highway at 1:00 pm and travels at a rate of 60 mph. One of the students did not g

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Question 1144528: A school group is traveling together on a school bus. The bus leaves a rest stop on an interstate highway
at 1:00 pm and travels at a rate of 60 mph. One of the students did not get back on the bus before it
left. A highway patrol car leaves the rest stop with the student at 1:30 pm and tries to catch the bus. If
the patrol car averages 80 mph, at what time will it catch the bus? How far from the rest stop will the
bus have traveled?

Answer by ikleyn(52879)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let t be the time (in hours) for patrol car to catch up the bus.

    // The time counts starting from 1:30 pm.


To the catching moment, the bus will be in move (t + 0.5) hours, 
or 0.5 hours more than the patrol car.


In t hours, the patrol car covers the distance 80*t miles.

In (t+0.5) hours, the bus covers the distance of 60*(t+0.5) miles.


The distance is the same at the catching moment:


    80t = 60(t+0.5)

    80t = 60t + 30

    80t - 60t = 30

    20t = 30

      t =  =  hours =  hours = 1 hour and 30 minutes.


The patrol car will catch the bus in 1 hour and 30 minutes after 1:30 pm, i.e. at 3:00 pm.    ANSWER


It will happen at the distance   = 120 kilometers from the rest stop.       ANSWER


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