SOLUTION: A family vacation trip took 12 hours. Of the total distance, 4/5 was in a car and 1/5 was in a boat, and the car traveled 5 times as fast as the boat. How much more time, in hours,

Question 1149021: A family vacation trip took 12 hours. Of the total distance, 4/5 was in a car and 1/5 was in a boat, and the car traveled 5 times as fast as the boat. How much more time, in hours, was spent in the boat than in the car?
Answer by ikleyn(52890) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let x be the rate of the boat; then the rate of the car is 5x.

And let "d" be the traveled distance.


The time spent on the car was   =   hours.


The time spent on the boat was   = .


The ratio   =  :  = .


Thus we need to separate 12 hours in two parts in proportion .


So, the parts are   =  =  hours for the car and  12 -  =   hours for the boat.

Solved.

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