SOLUTION: Brian and Juan road their bikes through busy city traffic and covered 26 miles in 4 hours. At the center of town, they slowed to half that pace. How long did it take them to travel

Question 143544: Brian and Juan road their bikes through busy city traffic and covered 26 miles in 4 hours. At the center of town, they slowed to half that pace. How long did it take them to travel the remaining 10 miles?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Distance equals Rate times Time: , so Rate equals Distance divided by Time and Time equals Distance divided by Rate .

First calculate the rate for the first part of the trip: .

Second, take the result of the previous calculation, divide it by 2, and replace r in with that result. Then do the arithmetic.
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