SOLUTION: With the old 55m.p.h. speed limit it used to take Shawn 2 more hours to drive to visit his parents' home than it does with the new 65m.p.h. limit. How ong does it take him to driv

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Question 114861: With the old 55m.p.h. speed limit it used to take Shawn 2 more hours to drive to visit his parents' home than it does with the new 65m.p.h. limit. How ong does it take him to driver there now?
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Let the time to make the trip at 65 mph be t. Then the time to make the trip at 55 mph is t + 2.

So one expression for the distance using d=rt is 65t. And another expression for the same distance is 55%28t%2B2%29. Since these expressions are for the same distance, we can say that they are equal.

65t=55%28t%2B2%29
65t-55t=110
10t=110
t=11. It takes 11 hours to drive there now.

Check: 65%2A11=715, so the trip must be 715 miles. The trip at 55 must have taken 11 + 2 or 13 hours, so check 55%2A13=715.