SOLUTION: a bomber takes off and flies 500kph a fighter setting out 2 1/2 hrs late flies at 750kpm how long will it take for the fighter to overtake the bomber and how far will the bomber ha

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Question 435646: a bomber takes off and flies 500kph a fighter setting out 2 1/2 hrs late flies at 750kpm how long will it take for the fighter to overtake the bomber and how far will the bomber have travelled at this time?

Found 2 solutions by mananth, ikleyn:
Answer by mananth(16949)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Bomber 500 mph
Fighter 750 mph
Difference in time= 02:30 150
Bomber will have covered 1250 miles before Fighter starts

catch up distance= 1250 miles
catch up speed = 750 -500 mph
catch up speed = 250 mph

Catchup time = catchup distance/catch up speed
catch up time= 1250 / 250
catch up time= 5 hours
Bomber would have traveled 500*5 = 2500 miles

Answer by ikleyn(53427)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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a bomber takes off and flies 500 kph a fighter setting out 2 1/2 hrs late flies at 750 kph.
how long will it take for the fighter to overtake the bomber and how far will the bomber have travelled at this time?
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The solution in the post by @mananth has one crucial error.

He mistakenly uses and operates with miles and miles per hour,
while he should use kilometers and kilometers per hour.


It reminds me a famous error in NASA calculations, when one team calculated
everything in old English units, while the other team thought that the numbers are in SI system.


The accompanying info from Google AI Overview

    That famous NASA error involved the 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter, which was    
    lost because Lockheed Martin used English units (pound-seconds for thrust) 
    while NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) assumed metric units (Newton-
    seconds), causing the spacecraft to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn 
    up instead of entering orbit, a $125-$327 million disaster highlighting 
    crucial communication gaps and unit confusion. 



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