SOLUTION: How fast must a car travel to overtake a bus in 5 hours, if the bus is averaging 30 kilometers per hour and left 3 hours before the car

Question 334999: How fast must a car travel to overtake a bus in 5 hours, if the bus is averaging 30 kilometers per hour and left 3 hours before the car
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How fast must a car travel to overtake a bus in 5 hours, if the bus is averaging
30 kilometers per hour and left 3 hours before the car
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Let s = required speed by the car
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If the car overtakes the bus in 5 hrs, the bus travel time = 8 hrs
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When the car overtakes the bus they will have traveled the same distance
Write a distance equation: dist = speed * time
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Car dist = bus dist
5s = 8(30)
5s = 240
s =
s = 48 km/hr to catch the bus in 5 hrs
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Confirm this by finding the distance of each, (should be equal)
5(48) = 240 mi
8(30) = 240 mi
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