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

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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?
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Distance equals Rate times Time: d=rt, so Rate equals Distance divided by Time r=d%2Ft and Time equals Distance divided by Rate t=d%2Fr.

First calculate the rate for the first part of the trip: r=26%2F4.

Second, take the result of the previous calculation, divide it by 2, and replace r in t=10%2Fr with that result. Then do the arithmetic.