SOLUTION: A walker and a cyclist go in the same direction on the same path. If the speed of the cyclist is three times that of the walker and they leave at 8:00 am and 12:00 noon, the cyclis

Question 1161823: A walker and a cyclist go in the same direction on the same path. If the speed of the cyclist is three times that of the walker and they leave at 8:00 am and 12:00 noon, the cyclist has a 32 km advantage to the other. Find out how fast each one is.
Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A walker and a cyclist go in the same direction on the same path. If the speed of the cyclist is three times that of the walker
and they leave at 8:00 am and 12:00 noon, the cyclist has a 32 km advantage to the other. Find out how fast each one is.
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According to the context, . . . 


    the speed of the cyclist is  32 km divided by 4 hours,    = 8 km/h.


Then the speed of the walker is    km/h,  or   km/h.

Solved.

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Comment from student: 4(3x)-4x=32 8x=32 x=4 km/h speed of the walker 3(4)=12 km/h speed of the cyclist
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My response. The solution in your comment is written FOR THE OTHER problem.
Not for the problem, presented in the post.

Learn on how to write your problems/posts ACCURATELY and CORRECTLY in English.

Every word does matter . . . even every preposition and/or every conjunction . . .

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