SOLUTION: red car and blue car are traveling the same distance on parallel roads. Red car is going 40 mph and blue car is going 60 mph. red car passes the gas station at 4:15 and blue car p
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Question 330709: red car and blue car are traveling the same distance on parallel roads. Red car is going 40 mph and blue car is going 60 mph. red car passes the gas station at 4:15 and blue car passes the same station at 4:27. At what time will the blue car catch up to the red car?
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
40*.2=8 mile lead by red
overtake at 20 mph
8/20=0.4 hrs=24 minutes
time = 4:51
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