SOLUTION: Two siblings attend the same school. The brother takes 40 minutes to walk home, while his sister takes 30 minutes. If they arrive home at the same time, what portion of the dista

Question 1198865: Two siblings attend the same school. The brother takes 40 minutes to walk home, while his
sister takes 30 minutes. If they arrive home at the same time, what portion of the distance had
he covered when she left school?
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Two siblings attend the same school. The brother takes 40 minutes to walk home, while his
sister takes 30 minutes. If they arrive home at the same time, what portion of the distance had
he covered when she left school?
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If they arrived home at the same time, and the sister was walking 30 minutes, while the brother
was walking 40 minutes, it means that the brother had walking 40-30 = 10 minutes when the sister
left the school.


In 10 minutes, the brother covered  =   of the distance from the school to home.    ANSWER

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