SOLUTION: on a friday night your limo travels for two hours int the carpool lane at 8kph, faster than the traffic to go to prom.the returning trip takes 3 hours on the same route going 3kph

Question 173372: on a friday night your limo travels for two hours int the carpool lane at 8kph, faster than the traffic to go to prom.the returning trip takes 3 hours on the same route going 3kph slower than traffic, what was the speed of traffic?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the speed of the traffic in km/hr
1st trip:

2nd trip:

The speed of the traffic was 25 km/hr

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