SOLUTION: Mary drove from amity to belleville at a speed of 50mi/h. On the way back, she drove at 60mi/h. The total trip took 4 hours and 24 minutesof driving time. What is the distance betw
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Question 325879: Mary drove from amity to belleville at a speed of 50mi/h. On the way back, she drove at 60mi/h. The total trip took 4 hours and 24 minutesof driving time. What is the distance between these two cities?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the distance between the two cities. Let 
represent the amount of time she drove 50 mph. Then since 4 hours 24 minutes equals 4.4 hours, 
represents the amount of time driven at 60 mph.
Then
describes the outbound trip and
)
describes the inbound trip, and, unless somebody picked Amity up and moved it while she was on the road or in Belleville, 
. Therefore:
)
Solve for and then multiply 
to calculate
John
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